
Meet the scientists that work in the marine reserve area with the largest coral atoll on the Earth
Mirella Orsi
In the middle of the Indian Ocean, there is a marine reserve area that contains the largest living coral atoll on Earth, over 60,000km2 of shallow limestone reef, and about 300 seamounts and abyssal habitats. This is the story about this little piece of the heaven and the team of scientists that work to understand how the ocean should look like without most of “human pressure”.