Coral reefs play an important role in marine ecosystem but have been

seriously damaged by climate change and human’s activities.

Rehabilitation together with other local management activities is

likely to improve ecosystem resilience. Survey data indicated that

coral reefs are threatened in Southeast Asia and Vietnam in

particular. Previous studies have shown that, at some trial locations

in Vietnam the survival rate was high from 65% - 100% after 3 - 5

months. However, it is unclear that if reef rehabilitation using

transplanted hard corals leads to an effective result in Con Co island

of Vietnam. In this study, we aim to examine the survival rate, growth

rate, and the increase in the number of axial corallite of transplanted

hard corals after 8 months conducting experiment. Here we collected

coral colonies in diversity locations to transplantation sites. Our

results shown that, the survival rate of the hard coral fragments

(n=360) was high (71.1%). Growth rate of branching, coral increased in

size with 85,4%. It is also show that, the increase in the number of

axial corallite was recorded in 81.3% colonies. These results suggest that, reef rehabilitation using transplanted hard corals can be used to recover coral reef in Quang Tri province of Vietnam.