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Great Barrier Reef survival frozen in Outback
30 January 2012
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A piece of Great Barrier Reef has been frozen… in the Australian outback, hundreds of kilometres from the coast.
The coral – made up of 70 billion sperm and 22 billion coral embryos – will be suspended in a liquid nitrogen chamber of minus 196 degrees Celsius.
It’s part of a plan to ensure the survival of the reef increasingly under attack from global warming and environmental pollutants.
Presenter:Geraldine Coutts
Speaker:Dr Rebecca Spindler, project director, Taronga Zoo
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