Name: 科學家如何修復大堡礁 | 《旅遊與休閒 (How Scientists Are Restoring The Great Barrier Reef | Travel + Leisure)
Uploaded: 2025-07-30T09:34:35.000Z
Duration: 7 min 33 s

People come to the Great Barrier Reef and expect doomsday.

人們來到大堡礁，期待著末日的到來。

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It has been publicised that the Great Barrier Reef is dead, I can assure you it's definitely not dead.

有人說大堡礁已經死了，我可以向你們保證，它絕對沒有死。

However, the Great Barrier Reef is under threat.

There is so many animals that are relying on us, we need to do something because if we lose all of this, it's going to have a huge impact.

有這麼多動物依賴著我們，我們需要做點什麼，因為如果我們失去了這一切，將會產生巨大的影響。

My name's Johnny Gaskell and I'm a marine biologist on Daydream Island.

我叫約翰尼-蓋斯克爾，是白日夢島的海洋生物學家。

I guess the first thing we do each day is head into the living reef, check the animals, check the corals, check the water quality.

我想我們每天要做的第一件事就是進入活珊瑚礁，檢查動物、珊瑚和水質。

Once we've done that, we invite guests to come with us on educational tours to inspire people to want to protect the oceans through the connections that they make with the animals.

完成這些工作後，我們會邀請遊客和我們一起參加教育之旅，通過與動物建立聯繫，激發人們保護海洋的願望。

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on the planet, it's a 2300 kilometre stretch of coral reef.

大堡礁是地球上最大的生物結構，是一片長達 2300 公里的珊瑚礁。

So all of the organisms that make up the Great Barrier Reef are colonies of animals and these little polyps excrete calcium carbonate and make these structures underneath the soft tissue and that's how you get your coral structure.

是以，構成大堡礁的所有生物都是動物群落，這些小息肉排洩碳酸鈣，在軟組織下面形成這些結構，這就是珊瑚結構的形成過程。

The colour in the coral is actually an algae that lives inside the coral tissue and that's where you get all the bright vibrant colours.

珊瑚中的顏色實際上是一種生活在珊瑚組織中的藻類，這也是所有鮮豔色彩的來源。

It is very important to note that although some parts of the Great Barrier Reef are still On the other side there's a lot of parts of the Great Barrier Reef that need help.

需要注意的是，儘管大堡礁的某些部分仍在恢復，但大堡礁的許多部分仍需要幫助。

If something's not done soon we may lose these places.

如果不盡快採取措施，我們可能會失去這些地方。

In 2016 and 2017 there was two mass bleaching events and because it was consecutive it had a significant impact on the Great Barrier Reef.

2016 年和 2017 年發生了兩次大規模白化事件，由於是連續發生的，是以對大堡礁產生了重大影響。

An estimated one third of the Great Barrier Reef was affected by this and we did lose a lot of coral.

據估計，有三分之一的大堡礁受到了影響，我們確實損失了大量珊瑚。

After the 2017 bleaching we were hit with tropical cyclone Debbie and that cyclone was a category four that basically sat over the Whitsundays for about 30 hours.

2017 年白化之後，我們遭遇了熱帶氣旋 "黛比"，該氣旋為四級，基本上在聖靈群島上空停留了約 30 個小時。

So we did lose a number of sites in the Whitsundays to cyclone damage.

是以，我們在聖靈群島確實失去了一些被龍捲風破壞的地點。

The day I jumped in at Lover's Cove after the cyclone, it was about four weeks after the cyclone.

颶風過後，我跳進情人灣的那天，大約是颶風過後四周。

I really didn't want to get in because I kind of expected what was there.

我真的不想進去，因為我有點期待那裡的一切。

Just having that memory of this underwater city just with corals everywhere, fish everywhere.

記憶中的水下城市到處都是珊瑚，到處都是魚。

It's so harsh that one day you got in and you didn't realise it was your last time.

有一天你進去了，卻沒有意識到這是你的最後一次，這太殘酷了。

So now I just want to do whatever I can to help it get back to as close as what it was as possible.

所以，我現在只想盡我所能，幫助它儘可能地恢復到原來的狀態。

There's two methods of coral propagation that we're using at the moment.

我們目前使用的珊瑚繁殖方法有兩種。

We collect coral, put them onto nurseries that we've actually built under the water in the marine park and then give the corals time in these nurseries to get to a suitable size where we can then plant them back into the damaged sites.

我們收集珊瑚，把它們放到我們在海洋公園水下建造的苗圃裡，然後讓珊瑚在這些苗圃裡生長一段時間，等它們長到合適的大小，我們再把它們種回受損的地方。

The other method that we're trialling here at the moment is to use coral raceways that are actually out of the water.

我們目前正在試驗的另一種方法是使用真正離開水的珊瑚賽道。

These tubs use raw water that cycles through them to basically replenish whatever's in there.

這些浴缸使用循環的原水，基本上是為了補充裡面的水。

So we actually grab the corals from the wild, put them into the raceways, leave them there in the raw water as it cycles in a controlled environment for four to five months until they get to that size we need and then out plant them back into the wild, into the sites where we've had cyclone damage.

是以，我們實際上是從野外捕捉珊瑚，將它們放進競速道，讓它們在受控環境下的原水中循環四到五個月，直到它們長到我們需要的大小，然後再將它們放回野外，種在遭受氣旋破壞的地方。

The advantage of using the raceways is it's controlled, it's right there.

使用賽道的優勢在於它是可控的，就在那裡。

We have it in front of us and if, God forbid, another cyclone comes along, at least then we have the coral fragments ready to go inside these raceways and the out planting can be done much faster.

我們已經準備好了，如果上帝不允許，又來了一場龍捲風，至少我們已經準備好了珊瑚碎片，可以把它們放在這些賽道里，這樣就可以更快地完成外植工作。

This one here I actually designed late one night, some crazy idea.

這個其實是我在一個深夜設計的，是一個瘋狂的想法。

We're really lucky that the Queensland and Australian government actually funded this project.

我們真的很幸運，昆士蘭州和澳大利亞政府真的資助了這個項目。

It's really good to get the support of the government and without them none of this would have actually happened.

能得到政府的支持真的很好，如果沒有他們，這一切都不會發生。

It's the first time this is done in the region so hopefully in the future other places do the same thing.

這在該地區尚屬首次，希望今後其他地方也能這樣做。

是以，這是一個相當激動人心的時刻。

We've got the coral raceways up and running, ready to go and the very first coral is about to go in it.

我們已經安裝好了珊瑚賽道，準備就緒，第一隻珊瑚即將放入賽道。

This will be one of the species that we will be propagating inside the raceways to then out plant into the wild.

這將是我們在賽道內繁殖的物種之一，然後再將其種植到野外。

We've actually named him, we've named him Steve.

實際上，我們已經給他起了名字，叫史蒂夫。

The longer we leave him in here and the longer he stays healthy, the more we know that this system really works.

我們把他留在這裡的時間越長，他保持健康的時間越長，我們就越瞭解這個系統的真正作用。

I actually haven't been in here since the cyclone, this spot.

實際上，自從旋風過後，我就再也沒有來過這個地方。

After the corals have spent a bit of time in the raceways, this is potentially one of the sites that we will aim to restore so I'm going to jump in now with the camera and see if the corals are going to have a happy home.

珊瑚們在賽道中度過一段時間後，這裡可能就是我們要修復的地點之一，所以我現在要帶著相機跳進去，看看珊瑚們是否會有一個快樂的家。

What I just saw down there was clear cyclone damage.

我剛才在下面看到的顯然是氣旋造成的破壞。

There's not much cover on any of the rock surfaces and coral rubble as far as you can see.

遠遠望去，岩石表面和珊瑚碎石上都沒有什麼遮擋物。

With a little bit of assistance, hopefully this site can come back.

希望在大家的幫助下，這個網站能夠重新煥發生機。

People all over the world want to come and see the Great Barrier Reef but there are actually ways that people can come and help out with the recovery of the reef.

世界各地的人們都想來觀賞大堡礁，但其實人們也可以通過各種方式來幫助大堡礁的恢復。

The citizen science effort is paramount to this project.

公民科學工作對本項目至關重要。

We want people to come to the region, go to the sites that we've recovered, take photos, send them to us, upload them and then hopefully over time we can get an indication of how it's recovered.

我們希望人們來到該地區，前往我們已經復原的地點，拍攝照片，發送給我們，上傳照片，然後希望隨著時間的推移，我們可以瞭解復原情況。

It's not too late for the Great Barrier Reef.

If everybody does their part then future generations will get to experience all of this.

如果每個人都能儘自己的一份力，那麼子孫後代就能體驗到這一切。

The Great Barrier Reef is a project supported by the U.S.

大堡礁是美國支持的一個項目。

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