WMNF

Update: NOAA delays listing pillar coral as “endangered”

Pillar coral with a threespot damselfish. By USFWS. On Friday NOAA announced that it is delaying protections for pillar coral. The 60-day delay means that the effective date of the pillar coral ...
Center for Biological Diversity

Caribbean’s Pillar Coral Protected as Endangered

MIAMI— The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a final rule today to change the status of the pillar coral, a species found in Florida waters and elsewhere in the Caribbean, from threatened to ...
WMNF

Pillar coral is now “endangered” under the ESA

Pillar coral with a threespot damselfish. By USFWS. The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a final rule on Monday to change the status of one coral species from threatened to endangered under ...
CBS News

Scientific Breakthrough At Florida Aquarium Could Save Florida's Endangered Coral Reefs

TAMPA (CBSMiami) -- Scientific history is being made at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa as endangered Atlantic pillar coral have spawned for the first time ever, in a lab setting. The scientific ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Scientists Catch Up On The Sex Life Of Coral To Help Reefs Survive

It's all in the timing. Biologists haven't been able to breed embryos of the rare, pillar coral in the lab because it's been tough to catch the... For the first time, biologists have caught a rare ...
Center for Biological Diversity

Pillar Coral Proposed for Increased Endangered Species Act Protection

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service proposed today to change the status of the pillar coral, a species found in Florida waters and elsewhere in the Caribbean, from threatened to ...
WLRN

Pillar Coral Was Already Rare On Florida Reefs. Now Biologists Say It's 'Extinct'

When pillar coral was proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act, coral biologists began a survey and assessment of all known colonies on the Florida reef tract. That was in 2013. They ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Coral scientists create gene bank for endangered pillar coral

APOLLO BEACH — Only 63 unique genetic individual pillar corals are currently alive in the Florida Reef Tract, so a group of scientists, including those at the Tampa-based Florida Aquarium have banded ...
Yahoo

Florida scientists induce spawning of Atlantic coral in lab for first time

Light illuminates an aquarium full of Pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindricus) just a few days before the animals would successfully spawn in an aquarium for the first time at a Florida Aquarium facility ...
Yahoo

WIDER IMAGE-Disaster under the waves: the race to save the coral of the Caribbean

KEY WEST, Fla., Sept 26 (Reuters) - Emily Hower, a research assistant at Nova Southeastern University doing field work on coral off Key West in Florida, bobs up out of the water and removes her diving ...
WLRN

Increased federal protections are delayed for 'threatened' pillar corals due to a White House memo

The Trump administration is delaying efforts to increase protections for the threatened pillar coral species. This is part of a freeze on new federal regulations, pending a 60-day review. Pillar ...