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Bringing oyster reefs back from extinction

Oyster reefs carpeted thousands of kilometers of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n coastline 200 years ago, but were dredged to near extinction within a century of colonial settlement. An ambitious nationwide restoration program now seeks to bring them back. In South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥, the largest reef restoration in the Southern Hemisphere, Windara Reef, was constructed in 2017 to restore the ecosystem of the native mud oyster, Ostrea angasi, off the Yorke Peninsula.

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