Pillar coral with a threespot damselfish. By USFWS. On Friday NOAA announced that it is delaying protections for pillar coral. The 60-day delay means that the effective date of the pillar coral ...

MIAMI— The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a final rule today to change the status of the pillar coral, a species found in Florida waters and elsewhere in the Caribbean, from threatened to ...

When pillar coral was proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act, coral biologists began a survey and assessment of all known colonies on the Florida reef tract. That was in 2013. They ...

Pillar coral with a threespot damselfish. By USFWS. The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a final rule on Monday to change the status of one coral species from threatened to endangered under ...

TAMPA (CBSMiami) -- Scientific history is being made at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa as endangered Atlantic pillar coral have spawned for the first time ever, in a lab setting. The scientific ...

APOLLO BEACH — Only 63 unique genetic individual pillar corals are currently alive in the Florida Reef Tract, so a group of scientists, including those at the Tampa-based Florida Aquarium have banded ...

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service proposed today to change the status of the pillar coral, a species found in Florida waters and elsewhere in the Caribbean, from threatened to ...

The Trump administration is delaying efforts to increase protections for the threatened pillar coral species. This is part of a freeze on new federal regulations, pending a 60-day review. Pillar ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A group of international biologists and experts are attempting to freeze coral larvae to preserve the endangered species. Pillar coral, which looks like fingers or a cluster of cigars ...