Until last summer, Pickles Reef was seen as a bright spot in the field of coral restoration. The Coral Restoration Foundation, one of the largest reef restoration organizations in the world, had spent the better part of two decades working to breathe new life into this degraded site, outplanting tens of thousands of small colonies of coral, mostlyfast-growing elkhorn and staghorn.
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“People have been saying ‘buying time’ for a quarter century. You can’t buy time forever. It seems like you bought that time, and now time is up.”- John Bruno, a marine ecologist in the biology department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.