Coral Reef Regeneration After Culling Of Starfish In Thousands

Divers, fishermen, environmentalists, octopus hunters, and volunteers have jointly captured and killed a total of 5,212 starfish from January to June, from the southern Luzon sea to save the world's second largest bed of coral reefs, a local paper said. The fearsome coral eaters, known as spiny predators, have become so vicious that their rapid multiplication during summer and due to the warming temperature of the southern Luzon sea, could wipe out the Apo Reef in Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro, dubbed the largest coral reef in the Philippines, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) told The Star...