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

Découverte d’un corail géant sur la Grande Barrière de Corail

THE GUARDIAN

Une colonie massive de 111 mètres a été identifiée lors d’un recensement citoyen en Australie. Grand comme un demi-terrain de football, ce trésor marin a été révélé par le plongeur Jan Pope. Cette avancée illustre l’efficacité de la science participative pour surveiller et préserver la biodiversité de nos océans.

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