地球大堡礁
過去三十年間,全球損失了差不多三分之一珊瑚礁。超過十億人依賴珊瑚礁提供食物;數十萬人全靠珊瑚礁維持生計,因此,復育珊瑚礁成為科學家關心的課題。
本節目第二集,以精心拍攝的珍貴影像,詳述珊瑚面臨的生存挑戰,包括健康惡化,繁殖因難,面對天敵等等,當然箇中因由少不了氣候變化的影響。引入科技協助珊瑚繁殖,澳洲大堡礁的復育經驗,也許可以惠及世上其他珊瑚國度。
Over the past 30 years, the world has lost nearly one-third of its coral reefs.More than one billion people depand on reefs for food and hunderds of thousands of people depend on them for their livelihoods.
From the most recently developed killer robots to shellfish farming, ultra-modern tactics are now proving their worth in the Great Barrier Reef to ensure the survival of this natural wonder that is the coral world and to make it possible to export this know-how to many of the world’s reefs.