Taiwan is assembling teams of volunteer divers and researchers to remove the overpopulated crown-of-thorns starfish from outlying Pratas Island. In some areas, the starfish have consumed up to 90% of the coral reefs.
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00:00An infestation of coral-eating starfish is threatening the reefs on Taiwan's outlying
00:05Pratas Island.
00:07Tens of thousands of crown-of-thorns starfish have destroyed 90 percent of coral in some
00:14areas. The government has recruited volunteers to remove them.
00:18Scientists say warming ocean temperatures may have caused the starfish to spread.
00:24The starfish may come in because the water quality is poor.
00:29The starfish eat faster and produce more starfish when the weather is hot.