Freeze the coral to avoid extinction

The prospects for survival of corals crave so rare that scientists have begun to freeze samples for saving these agencies of their total disappearance.

At a meeting in Copenhagen, researchers have claimed that the disappearance of corals seems inevitable even reaching the best estimates of emission reductions in the coming years.

BBC reports, experts are storing samples in liquid nitrogen in order to reintroduce them in the seas in the future, when the ocean temperature to stabilize.

Scientists announced the measure to representatives of 16 major economies in the world who have gathered in Copenhagen to try to move the negotiations for the climate change conference to be held next December in the same city. The event is organized by the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE, by its initials in English).

"It may be our last chance to save the biodiversity of the reef systems that are incredibly diverse," says Simon Hardin, of the Zoological Society of London. "It would be a way to preserve the species and ensure its survival in this way".

Researchers have noted that corals provide a source of income, food and protection to 500 million people worldwide. The progressive deterioration of the oceans are causing serious damage to these sensitive animals. According to recent studies the Coral Triangle of Southeast Asia (one of the largest in the world) could be destroyed in less than one hundred years.