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Scientists with Mote Marine Laboratory check up on a staghorn coral that has been transplanted to a reef east of Looe Key and fastened—along with its cement pillar—to the service below. Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) was once one of the most abundant corals on Caribbean and Floridian reefs. Today, after severe losses due to coral bleaching and disease, it is listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The Conservancy is working with Ken Nedimyer to grow this species in his underwater nursery to restore the coral to its former abundance. By comparing the survival and growth rates of multiple coral genotypes at different positions along the reef, Conservancy scientists are learning about genetic and geographic aspects of reef resilience. © Tim Calver
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Alys Stevens (an Ecologist with the Biodiversity Conservation Unit of Australia's Northern Territory Department of Natural Resources) holds an animal container containing a rock rat captured during a survey on Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory. Geoffrey Lipsett-Moore, The Nature Conservancy's director for the Northern Territory (who is assising in the survey) looks on during the process of recording data about the animal. Alys is talking with an aboriginal children who are assisting with the survery at their Kulnuki campsite. The Nature Conservancy is supporting the work of the indigenous people as well as local government and non-government agencies in managing the traditional homelands of the aboriginal people. © Ted Wood
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Geoffrey Lipsett-Moore (Geoff); The Nature Conservancy's Northern Australia Program Director; Shaun Ansell, manager for the Fish River Station project; John Daly, an aboriginal elder whose ancestors have lived on the Fish River lands for thousands of years and Terry Nimmit,a member of the local indigenous community at Fish River Station in Australia's Northern Territory. © Ted Wood
The Nature Conservancy's Galbadrakh (Gala) Davaa, (on left, writing - Director of Conservation for the Conservancy's Mongolia Program) with Enkhtsetseg Tuguldur, a Conservancy biologist in Mongolia, taking notes while touring Mongolia's Khentii Province grasslands. © Ted Wood
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