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Subject: Biorock
coral reef restoration in the
Maldives
on the BBC
Dear Gaia,
Nice to see
that you feature one of our old Biorock coral reef restorations in the
Maldives work in your BBC piece today!
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120905-save-our-dying-coral-reefs
But it is
very disappointing that you never mention our technology by name, that some of
the "information" you give is not correct, and that you did not provide our web
site so people could learn more. You could easily have got this straight if you
had checked the facts with me for accuracy, as the only surviving inventor of
this coral reef restoration technology. Next month I am installing the first
wave-energy powered project, which now allows us to build huge structures
anywhere, powered from local untapped clean energy.
Wolf and I
did projects like this in more than 20 countries, but despite having 16-20 times
higher survival of corals on Biorock than surrounding reefs in the 1998 Maldives
Bleaching Event, the hotels there have shut the power off for more than 10
years. That means all the corals on them will die just like the surrounding
reefs the next time the water gets very hot (I invented the HotSpot method for
accurately predicting coral bleaching from satellite sea surface temperatures
alone in 1989) because the benefits are due to the electrical field itself and
are not residual.
Our Biorock
method is the only method that greatly increases the settlement, growth rates,
survival, and resistance to environmental stresses like high temperatures that
is known. That is because it uniquely creates the natural biophysical conditions
that all corals and marine organisms use to synthesize their biochemical energy.
Much more on this is in Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration, the
20 chapter book I edited that shows for the first time our 25 years of data and
results, which will be published this year by one of the world's largest
scientific publishers.
This is of
course the same technology about which you recently published an interview by
Peter Sale falsely describing our work as a "snake oil fraud" and refused to
correct.
I'm glad that
you have finally decided to see for yourself and not base your opinion on lies.
But what you have seen is a very poor example because it has not been working at
all for more than 10 years, and you really need to see the real thing!
You can see
photos of one of our properly maintained projects in an area of the Coral
Triangle that was practically barren of corals and
fish when we began at the links below:
The United Nations Development Program Special Award for Marine and Coastal Zone
Management, and the UNDP Equator Award for Community Based Development were
awarded to the Biorock coral reef and fisheries restoration projects at
Pemuteran Bali, during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 20 2012. These projects are run by the
Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation in Indonesian), the local
partner to the Global Coral Reef
Alliance, developers of the technology.
New photographs of these stunning projects, in areas that were formerly nearly
barren, can be seen at:
http://www.biorock.org/content/pemuteran-bali-may-2012-eunjae-im
and at:
http://www.globalcoral.org/Equator Award presentation (4).pdf
The Global Coral Reef Alliance is ready to partner with all serious local groups
that want to keep their reefs alive where they would die and grow new reefs back
in a few years in places where there has been little or no natural recovery. Our
Biorock Technology is the only method of coral reef restoration known that
greatly accelerates the settlement, growth, survival, healing, and resistance to
environmental stress of corals and all marine organisms.
Best wishes,
Tom
Thomas J. Goreau, PhD
President, Global
Coral Reef Alliance
President, Biorock International Corp.
Honorary Research Fellow,
Discovery
Bay
Marine Laboratory, Centre for Marine Sciences, University of the West Indies,
Mona, Jamaica
Coordinator, United Nations Commission on Sustainable
Development Small
Island Developing States Partnership in New
Sustainable Technologies
37 Pleasant Street,
Cambridge MA
02139
617-864-4226
goreau@bestweb.net
http://www.globalcoral.org
http://www.biorock.org
Skype: tomgoreau
No one
can change the past, every one can change the future
Thomas J. Goreau, PhD
President, Global
Coral Reef Alliance
President, Biorock International Corp.
Honorary Research
Fellow, Discovery
Bay
Marine Laboratory, Centre for Marine Sciences, University of the West Indies,
Mona, Jamaica
Coordinator, United Nations Commission on Sustainable
Development Small
Island Developing States Partnership in New
Sustainable Technologies
37 Pleasant Street,
Cambridge MA
02139
617-864-4226
goreau@bestweb.net
http://www.globalcoral.org
http://www.biorock.org
Skype: tomgoreau
No one
can change the past, every one can change the future
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