New York — They are animals without eyes or the ability to speak, but if the live corals at the New York Aquarium could talk, they would have quite a story.

Aaron Brett, a coral expert with the aquarium, can tell their story for them.

Earlier this year, somewhere in Indonesia, about 200 coral pieces were plucked from the water, packaged up, and sent by plane to the U.S., where they were discovered and seized in May by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, Brett explains.

Trading in coral is highly restricted. According to the aquarium, the seized coral is protected under the Endangered Species Act and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, an international conservation agreement that targets the ille

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