Tim Lamont, a young scientist who recorded the amazing sounds of healthy coral reefs, found that if he played them back on reefs that were being manually restored after damage, the fish came back more quickly, and in more species. (Links in comments)

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The sounds of coral reefsJim Al-Khalili meets Tim Lamont, a young ecologist making waves restoring coral reefsTim Lamont is a young scientist making waves.Arriving on the Great Barrier Reef after a mass bleaching event, Tim saw his research plans disappear and was personally devastated by the destruction.But from that event he discovered a novel way to restore coral reefs.Playing the sounds of a healthy coral reef entices fish in to recolonise the wrecked reefs.Tim's emotional journey forced him to realise that environmental scientists can no longer just observe."

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