Cyanide fishing, bombings and other exploitative processes destroy coral reefs. In Indonesia, these practices and others destroyed huge parts of the delicate reef ecosystem.

Reefs seem so complex that it would be impossible to bring them back, but this just isn't so. Drop a derelict ship into the warm waters where reefs thrive and life starts appearing on it almost immediately.

But what if you want something more elegant, more reef-like? Enter Michael Moore (no relation to the filmmaker), head of EcoReefs. His organization creates objects that resemble staghorn coral and places them into the ocean. Within months, fish appear, and within a year corals start to grow, and tiny reefs start to grow.

See the article for lots more pictures and information.

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