Significados de crown-of-thorns starfish em inglês

They eat difficult and even toxic animals such as sea hares and crown-of-thorns starfish.

It has also endured damage from crown-of-thorns starfish and cyclones.

The money will also go towards improving water quality, tackling the crown-of-thorns starfish and scientific research.

Tells about how the coral reefs around the islands are being threatened by a growing destruction by the crown-of-thorns starfish.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt also today revealed an extra $6 million for an additional control vessel to tackle crown-of-thorns starfish.

A major outbreak of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish has been destroying areas of the world heritage-listed reef, prompting a major cull in January.

Photo: RNZI Efforts are underway in the Cook Islands to eradicate the crown-of-thorns starfish, which has re-appeared on the reef around Rarotonga.

The reef is also being decimated by crown-of-thorns starfish infestations, with more than a million of the creatures culled in the last four years.

They found cyclone damage caused nearly half the losses, crown-of-thorns starfish more than 40 percent and coral bleaching from spikes in sea temperatures 10 percent.