kids may never see a car reef it really scares me to think of a world without coral. reese, sherry konstantin of the nature conservancy has established a large scale conservation project in the eastern caribbean. the goal was to protect corals and other ecosystems while still enabling some tourism and fishing in specific areas. the fact that the community was so involved in the designation the design of these areas, that is why it was so successful. there are also plenty of ways to enhance conservation efforts, like these take playing underwater sounds to laura back fish for one slightly surprising example. and there is evidence that by shielding reefs from local stresses, marine protected areas build resilience in the face of ocean acidic vacation and rising temperatures. so we have to have multiple strategies in addition to marine protected areas. this is lizzy mccloud whose global coral reefs lead at the nature conservancy. researchers like lizzie mccloud, are going one step further in the quest to help reefs resist climate change by investigating how to actually toughen coral reefs with.