Irus Braverman is Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, the State University of New York. She is the author of Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine (2009), Zooland: The Institution of Captivity (2012), and Wild Life: The Institution of Nature (2015).

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Coral Whisperers
Corals in the Anthropocene-An Interview with Peter Sale
1. Coral Scientists between Hope and Despair
Prophet of Doom-An Interview with Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
2. "And Then We Wept": Coral Death on Record
The Pristine Is Gone-An Interview with Jeremy Jackson
3. Fragments of Hope: Nursing Corals Back to Life
Building Bridges and Trees-An Interview with Ken Nedimyer
4. Coral Law under Threat
The Cinderella of Corals-An Interview with J Murray Roberts
5. The Coral Holobiont: Hope and the Genomic Turn
A Super Coral Scientist-An Interview with Ruth Gates
Conclusion: Coral Scientists on the Brink
Notes
List of Interviews
Index

In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world's precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today's coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, and polluted oceans. Coral Whisperers captures a critical moment in the history of coral reef science. Gleaning insights from over one hundred interviews with leading scientists and conservation managers, Irus Braverman documents a community caught in an existential crisis and alternating between despair and hope. In this important new book, corals emerge not only as signs and measures of environmental catastrophe, but also as catalysts for action.