Coral Condition After Executing Large-Scale Coral Transplantation on Kuta Beach in Bali Island

The large-scale coral transplantation with applying asexual reproduction method has been implemented in the shallow lagoon at Kuta Beach in Bali Island of Indonesia. The monitoring and maintenance works after fixing coral fragments were continued for 1.5 years to observe the coral growth and survival conditions. The high survival rate and significant growth of transplanted corals were observed for branching and leaf type coral species which were brought from same coral reef area in comparison with other experiments in Japan. This is mainly caused by different environmental conditions from that in Japan; such as high water temperature with range of 24 to 30 degrees C, no disturbance by storm, inexistence of natural enemy, etc.