We're working to protect the precious coral reefs, to conserve threatened fish, to stop the advance of deserts.

"The depths of destruction Dynamite fishing ravages Philippines' precious coral reefs".

Precious coral or red coral is the common name given to Corallium rubrum and several related species of marine coral.

The distinguishing characteristic of precious corals is their durable and intensely colored red or pink skeleton, which is used for making jewelry.

"Some island in the Gulf of Mexico - where Professor Babcock had divers plunging for his precious coral."

Owing to its intense and permanent coloration and glossiness, precious coral skeletons have been harvested since antiquity for decorative use.

Soft corals, including the precious coral (Corallium rubrum), belong to the subclass Alcyonaria, sometimes called Octocorallia.

And some others were set under the rest- less waves of seas, sharp pinnacles, as red as the precious coral he had seen shown by merchants from the southern lands.

The CO2 levels started soaring, so the experimenters desperately planted more green plants, but the CO2 continued to rise, then dissolved in the "ocean" and ate their precious coral reef.

In the worst case, scientists say, the cloud could threaten precious coral reefs along the Florida Keys, contaminate the food web and affect a variety of species forced to migrate through it.

The liquors and precious corals of the Windlorn Isles are highly valued in Zinora, and die pearls constitute an important part of dieir trade with other nations as well."

The High Chief's inhuman body was magnificently decked in a pearl-studded cloth-of-gold kilt and a stomacher and upstanding collar of gold mesh inset with pearls and precious coral.

Last month, riding the crest of a circulation boom because of its scandal coverage, the newspaper started another crusade by printing an article and picture on page one reporting that scuba divers had defaced an environmetally precious coral reef by carving the initials "KY" on the coral.

Also on exhibit are an ornate crosier in ivory, a gold-plated silver reliquary of the Lombardy school of goldsmiths from c. 1530, numerous precious corals, missals, codices and manuscripts dating from the late 15th century, and many chalices, goblets, monstrances and reliquaries in different styles and from different eras.