Restoration & Rewilding
Holding a species is not saving it. Restoration is where the League's living collection goes home — corals outplanted to bleached reefs, seagrass and mangrove replanted on stripped coasts, captive-bred lines spawned, reared, and released. The mandate ends only when the water is whole again.
Habitat restoration
Coral outplanting
Microfragmented and tree-grown colonies outplanted to bleached and dynamited reef sites, then monitored for fusion and survival.
Seagrass
Seed-and-plug replanting of seagrass meadows — nurseries, carbon sinks, and the grazing grounds the dugong line depends on.
Mangrove
Propagule planting along stripped estuarine coasts to rebuild brackish nurseries and break storm surge.
Kelp
Green-gravel and spore-line seeding to re-found collapsed kelp forests in temperate waters.
The rewilding pipeline
Every release runs the same four-stage path, driven by the Breeding Station and tracked against rewilding-throughput metric AE-MET-025. Genetics behind it come from the Genome & Cryo-Bank.
Spawn
Mean-kinship-paired broodstock spawned on cue; eggs collected and counted.
Rear to fry
Larvae and fry reared through the vulnerable window on live feeds, away from predators.
Condition & acclimate
Wild-type behaviour and local water chemistry conditioned in before any release.
Release & monitor
Released into a restored, surveyed site; survival and recapture logged on the AquaLink mesh.
Release log
| Date | Species | Site | Count | Stage | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2091-02-18 | Staghorn Coral | Tela Bay fringe, Caribbean | 412 frags | Outplant | surviving |
| 2091-01-30 | Banggai Cardinalfish | Banggai Archipelago, Indonesia | 180 | Release | established |
| 2090-12-11 | Seagrass (mixed) | Shark Bay verge, W. Australia | 2,400 plugs | Replant | monitoring |
| 2090-11-22 | Leafy Seadragon | Encounter Bay, S. Australia | 26 | Release | guarded |
| 2090-10-09 | Mangrove propagule | Sundarbans margin | 5,100 | Replant | taking |
Release log is an operational summary; per-cohort detail is held in the field-operation reports.
The living collection behind it
The animals and plants currently staged for or returning to the wild — the League's rewilding and breeding-stock lines.