Coral spawning: All hands on deck for the Great Barrier Reef baby boom

Tourism operators and local Reef industry worked through the night during the most remarkable coral spawning event on the planet, learning cutting-edge restoration techniques to help boost healthy coral numbers.

The annual coral spawning event, triggered by the November full moon, sees the Great Barrier Reef’s magnificent corals burst into life in an underwater ‘snowstorm’ by releasing trillions of eggs and sperm into the water in a mass breeding phenomenon, which Sir David Attenborough describes as ‘one of the greatest of all natural spectacles’.

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