The Long Run

Conservation at Chumbe Island

26.10.2009

Chumbe Island Reef Sanctuary: The Conservation & Education Coordinator and Chumbe Island Rangers are launching their 4th season of coral reef monitoring efforts, adding coral reef diseases to this year’s efforts. Seagrass monitoring continues in addition to our long-terms manual sea urchin removal project, which includes fish monitoring and substrate observations. The team is looking into any potential ecological relationships between sea urchins and their main predator, the orange-striped triggerfish (Balistapus undulaus). On-going monitoring of the crown-of-thorns sea star, a major predator of coral reefs, continues as well.

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