VALLE SECO, Venezuela — Estrella Villamizar grabbed the soft red and white coral by its stem and hacked ... waters lapping against this deserted beach. On the sea bed, stretching for a distance ...

Marine biologists in Venezuela are racing against the clock to stop an invasive species of soft coral that are ravaging reefs. Ana Yranzo Duque, a coral reef researcher at the Universidad Central ...

LOS ROQUES ARCHIPELAGO, Venezuela, Dec 11 (Reuters ... The extension destroyed coral, mangroves and a nesting beach for the critically endangered Eretmochelys imbricata turtle, covering it ...