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As scientists rush to save ailing corals elsewhere, in Venezuela locals are trying to kill off this stinky variety.

VALLE SECO, Venezuela - Estrella Villamizar grabbed the soft red and white coral by its stem and hacked it off with a blow of her wooden knife before tossing it in a bucket with other pieces she’d already ripped out of the Caribbean waters lapping against this deserted beach.

On the sea bed, stretching for a distance as far as the eye could see, a blanket of the dark coral swayed in the warm current.