Reef rehabilitation method uses bio transplants model in Tunda Island Banten Province, Indonesia

Abstract

Reef habitat degradation has an impact on both human activities and natural factors. It can motivate some people to preserve the coral reef ecosystem's function in ecology and economics. According to Patent No. S00201908839 that Bio Transplants is a reef transplantation method that utilizes Dead Coral and Dead Coral with Algae as a media substrate to attach reef fragments. This study aimed to develop a reef rehabilitation method using the bio-Transplants method. It does not need a specific skill like a scuba diver certificate. Conducted the research in July, November 2019, and July 2020 on the prototype model area. The result showed that the reef fragment survival based on November 2019 was 71.7 % of the total fragment in July 2019 (364 transplants). In July 2020, the colony component was 97.4 % after age ± twelve months from 239 pieces that grew since July 2019. Using the dry adhesive, since the fragments' age ± four months had been associated with their substrate, their fragment section had been covered by the width increase of component become (become the colony of the reef). People have been trying "the bio-Transplants method"included in their tour packages as marine ecotourism implementation.