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 Scientists Have Been Freezing Corals for Decades. Now They're Learning How to Wake Them Up

https://media.wired.com/photos/654ecb4d24249dcd005cee49/master/pass/cryopreserved-coral-Science-Alamy-ACK2E5.jpg

Deep-frozen corals, cryopreserved in the hope of restoring ocean ecosystems, are growing up. Could the futuristic technique eventually save dying reefs?

https://www.wired.com/story/cryofreezing-corals-learning-how-to-wake-them-up/ 
 So, let me get this right, the idea is to transplant corals on reefs where corals died due to pollution and global warming... so how is this going to help? Corals died because of the inhospitable conditions....so anything you transplant there is going to die.