Mar. 10th, 2012

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In the north-western corner of Bali, close to a ferry to Java and a national park, there is a fishing village of Pemuteran. It was famous for excellent coral few decades ago. Eventually most of the coral was broken, partially because of a high tech fishing (using explosives and cyanide)

After local ppl found that stream of tourists has nearly vanished, they decided to re-grow a coral. Explosives fishing was banned, but normally new coral would take tens of years to appear. So they decided to help coral by creating a steel frames underwater, connected to direct current generated by small wind turbines. The current performs electrolysis releasing calcium that is used by newly planted corals to build themselves.


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In spite of lacking a lot of colorful fish, the reef is interesting on it's own. I wish I could go there in few years to check up the improvements.

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