Introducing Coral News – our International Year of the Reef feature! |16 July 2018
Welcome to Coral News, the Seychelles Islands Foundation’s (SIF) new newsletter feature to celebrate Aldabra’s coral reefs as part of the International Year of the Reef 2018!
Every month we will provide short new insights into Aldabra’s coral reefs to highlight the diversity and importance of this incredible ecosystem.
Our first feature shows an extensive patch of Acropora corals at Anse Var reef – a perfect example of the structural complexity branching corals such as these provide.
A multitude of organisms such as tiny fish, crabs, shrimps and beautiful snails live on and between the coral branches. Provision of habitat is in fact one of
the most important functions of coral reefs, as it does not only attract those little critters, but also bigger fish that come to find food there!
Check back on the next Coral News, where one of the little less obvious reef dwellers found at Aldabra will feature.
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