Marine Biologist Professor Steve Simpson from Bristol University has found out that coral larvae actively choose where to settle and develop.<\/p>\n
They can move through the water using tiny hairs on their surface to push themselves along. <\/p>\n
He has also found that they are attracted to the sounds of a healthy reef, so if a thriving underwater soundtrack is played in the water, the coral larvae are more likely to land and start growing. <\/p>\n
Using this technique, they can attract the larvae to the areas that need to be restored.<\/p>\n
He told Newsround: “If you create safe places for coral to survive they are in a position to grow back into the area where they’ve been lost.” <\/p>\n
He has teamed up with Prof Harrison and they have been working together to try and boost coral on the Great Barrier Reef, near Australia. <\/p>\n
It is the largest coral reef in the world and has been badly affected by coral bleaching.<\/p>\n
Prof Simpson told Newsround that even damaged reefs can bounce back with human help but that the underlying causes of climate change also need to be tackled. <\/p>\n
He said: “We’re working with nature to keep coral reefs alive while also tackling climate change.”<\/p>\n
“We’re not just hoping for a better future, we’re making hope happen,” he added.<\/p>\n
Deadly 60: Saving Coral Reefs is available on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marine Biologist Professor Steve Simpson from Bristol University has found out that coral larvae actively choose where to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-546881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}