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REEF SPAWNS NEW CORALS Observers watched the Great Barrier Reef have sex as a new generation of corals was conceived on Moore Reef, 47km east of Cairns, early in November. Billions of tiny pink balls exploded into the water as different species of soft corals and a handful of hard corals began the nighttime regeneration process. For a few hours, the sex cell bundles broke open, releasing sperm and eggs to bump into each other then settle on coral rubble to form baby corals. Marine biologist Stuart Ireland has been documenting the annual rebirth at Moore Reef since 1996. “The coral cover and diversity is very high at Moore Reef after the past six years of strong growth and the 2023 spawning reflects this,” he said. “As in previous years, we watched the soft corals start…

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