, competed at the Melbourne Grand Prix last weekend – sent two engineers to North Queensland late last year to help the non-for-profit organisation work out how to scale-up coral spawning production on the reef.resulting in the mass destruction of coral on the natural wonder over the past two decades. Last summer was classified as another major coral bleaching event – the fifth in the past eight years.
Currently, scientists can grow a few hundred thousand corals a year in an aquarium, focusing on more climate resilient varieties to help withstand warmer ocean temperatures, at a price of about $7 to $10 per coral. The Great Barrier Reef Foundation is hoping to automate the process of putting coral on tabs in the aquarium and for deployment onto the reef – both of which have so far been done manually.
“We have taken some time to work out where our impacts are and where we can make the biggest difference and that’s about getting our own house in order and reducing our negative impacts as well as a positive contribution we can make ,” she said. Mr Brown said perceptions of Formula One as gas guzzlers and environmental vandals were outdated, saying you would struggle to smell anything at a F1 pit stop these days.
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