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https://www.reefcheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/maldives1023_01.jpg225300Biosphere Expeditions recently concluded its latest trip to the Maldives, unexpectedly finding signs of hope at previously badly affected reef sites impacted by the 2016 mass bleaching event. Sites that are grazed by herbivorous fish and have not been colonized by corallimorphs have partially recovered; baby corals are taking a foothold, surviving on the skeletal corpses of once great boulder corals, finding a space for new life in between dead coral branches.