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CORAL NURSERY LAUNCHED IN UNDERWATER NATIONAL PARK Environmentalists - including marine ecologist, Ruleo Camacho, of Antigua & Barbuda National Parks and DiveCarib’s in-house marine biologist, Louis Evans - have built the first coral nursery under the waves in Nelson’s Dockyard National Park. This “coral garden” will increase the resilience of the coral reef ecosystem and provide shelter and food for many fish species. Similar nurseries have been used to help reefs in places like the Florida Keys.

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