ecology

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Historic! Corals are reproducing under controlled conditions!

10 years. That is the time it took a team of scientists in Puerto Morelos to have corals reproducing in controlled culture systems. This is a historic achievement for fisheries and aquaculture science in Mexico. As a result, it restores hope that we can recover and repopulate the coral reefs in the Caribbean. Decades of …

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If you love Playa…Take note and make a real change!

We always talk about how much we love it here, about how this place welcomes everyone from all over the world, how people have found what they were looking for in life in this beautiful Caribbean paradise, yet we still see people leaving garbage at the beaches. Collecting trash from beaches can be done as …

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A gallery you have to see! Saving the Caribbean’s huge barrier reef

The Caribbean’s Mesoamerican Reef is the second largest barrier reef in the world, stretching 600 miles (965 km). Only the Great Barrier Reef surpasses it. The reef’s northernmost point aligns with Cancún in Mexico. From there it stretches south-east alongside the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. But the tourism industry, combined with ecological …

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