Viet Nam News Under the influence of climate change and overexploitation, the amount of coral reefs worldwide, including in Phú Quốc District in the southern province of Kiên Giang, have reduced significantly. In an effort to preserve and revive nature’s precious gift, Phú Quốc Nature Reserve has been implementing a project of planting a coral reef nursery garden on the seabed. Nguyễn Triều spent a day with conservationists from the reserve. by Nguyễn Triều When 11th lunar month comes, the high waves of the western sea in the southern province of Kiên Giang rise with each gust of north-easterly wind. From An Thới Harbour in Phú Quốc District, a wooden boat carries a group of conservationists from Phú Quốc Nature Reserve, heading south. A working day for the coral planters begins. As soon as it approached the centre of Nhứt, a narrow channel that connects Phú Quốc Island and Dừa Islet, hundreds of miles off the coast, the boat encountered rows of waves each a metre in height. It bobbed up and down while the marking buoy, which can only be carried by two people, kept swinging aboard. According to Nguyễn Linh Ngọc, the manager of the technology bureau from…

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