A Crown of Thorns starfish outbreak at Swain Reefs. Picture: AIMS/Justin Rowley Over the next three years, the program will ...

EIGHTY percent of fisherfolk in Southern Leyte have been severely affected by an ongoing outbreak of crown-of-thorns starfish ...

Giant triton (snail) -> Crown-of-thorns starfish -> Hard coral One of the few predators of the crown-of-thorns starfish, the giant triton (Charonia tritonis) has evolved a tolerance to the ...

Marine biologists have long warned about the high population density of coral-eating spiny starfish on the Great Barrier Reef. Crown-of-thorns starfish populations are again thriving along the ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish populations are again flourishing along the Great Barrier Reef. Symon Dworjanyn is a professor of marine ecology at Southern Cross university. "Crown-of-thorns starfish ...

In large numbers, crown-of-thorns starfish can mow down wide swaths of coral reef. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reports that Acropora species are in the top three ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks continue to threaten the health of coral offshore of Port Douglas, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority chief scientist says. The Novemb ...

it doesn't take much math to work out that they can literally eat away coral reefs very, very quickly." Current control ...

The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, Minister for the Environment and WaterSenator Nita Green, Special Envoy for the Great Barrier Reef and Senator for ...

In recent years, the reef has lost 30% of its coral due to bleaching linked to rising sea temperatures and damage from crown-of-thorns starfish. The funding will be used to reduce the runoff of ...

But he had heard from a local guide at Sakieda Bay that coral there have been miraculously revived. According to an expert, the hunting of crown-of-thorns starfish has helped restore some of the ...