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Goals
Five-year goals
- Expand and formalize a database for tracking collected, held and cryopreserved specimens.
- Enhance and continue to develop and refine cutting edge science for coral fragments with a focus on cryopreservation.
- Scale up and build out by increasing geographic node operations and expanding the core functions of the Alliance.
- Collect reaching collection goals for each year until 2026 to reach overall aim of holding complete, known, genetic diversity of corals.
>50-year aspirations
- Create a system that not only holds the coral fragments collected by the alliance, but create links between restoration organizations to help fuel their efforts to reintroduce species.
- Continue making efforts towards assisted evolution and maintaining a large cryo-banking system for fragments.
- In-depth genetic testing of the coral samples collected so the overall scientific understanding of corals can be expanded to further improve future efforts.
