{"id":12511,"date":"2025-12-16T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimabozza.it\/mediterranean-corals-the-challenge-of-restoration\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:48:56","slug":"mediterranean-corals-the-challenge-of-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultimabozza.it\/en\/mediterranean-corals-the-challenge-of-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediterranean corals, the challenge of restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The crisis of coral reefs<\/a><\/strong> is one of the alarm bells of a system that is reaching its limits. Corals occupy just 1 per cent of the seafloor<\/strong>, but more than a quarter of the sea’s biodiversity <\/strong>depends on them. A biological paradox that tells the stakes well. Ancient organisms, capable of surviving five mass extinctions, now threaten to fail in the face of global warming<\/strong>, ocean acidification<\/strong>, heat waves<\/strong>, and intensifying human pressures <\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n

It is from this awareness that“MedCoral Guardians”:<\/a> the project initiated by the Marevivo Foundation<\/a><\/strong> to defend and restore Mediterranean corals. After a first experience in the Marine Protected Area of Ustica, the initiative arrived at Punta Campanella<\/strong>, one of the most precious stretches of sea in Campania. Here, together with the Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II<\/strong>, an active monitoring and restoration of the Cladocora caespitosa<\/strong><\/em>, the so-called cushion madrepore, one of the main “engineers” of the Mediterranean marine ecosystem. <\/p>\n\n

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