Our program has focused on working with heat-tolerant coral lineages that we have identified during thermal bleaching events. These 2018 transplants of heat-tolerant lineages of Acropora fruticosa are showing good thermal tolerance while other corals naturally occurring on the reef around them have already started to bleach during the 2019 hot season. Different lineages of the same species are planted in close proximity to each other to help promote successful reproduction with each other. Photo © Reef Explorer Fiji Ltd.
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