The coral measures roughly 111 meters in length and covers an area about half the size of a soccer field. Jan Pope, with 35 years of diving experience on the Great Barrier Reef, discovered it during a recent Great Reef Census, a citizen science initiative that employs crowd-sourced images to track coral coverage across the reef.
(c) Yanguang Lan

Hallan en el Gran Arrecife el coral más grande jamás registrado

THE GUARDIAN

Una colonia gigante de 111 metros ha sido descubierta en la Gran Barrera de Coral gracias a un censo de ciencia ciudadana. Este hallazgo, del tamaño de medio campo de fútbol, fue localizado por el buzo Jan Pope. El hito demuestra el poder de la colaboración comunitaria para monitorear y proteger la vida marina.

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