Track the health of the world's coral reefs, share pictures, and write up stories and opinions about how man's activity and climate change are destroying reef ecosystems. Help protect the world's coral population by getting informed and...
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Track the health of the world's coral reefs, share pictures, and write up stories and opinions about how man's activity and climate change are destroying reef ecosystems. Help protect the world's coral population by getting informed and sharing what you know.
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Islands and beaches ringed by coral reefs draw thousands of tourists a year.
But it seems that the tourists attracted by the coral’s beauty and animal diversity may be inadvertently destroying the reefs.
The real culprit is something that every responsible individual takes to the ocean. Ingredients found in sunblock are causing the environmental problem. four separate ingredients... Read Full Story
Looking back: Fiji Rescue for coral reefs
Broadcasting and broadcast: SWR, Sunday, 22 November 2009
Worldwide climate change affects ocean temperatures to rise slowly with a devastating collateral damage: The coral reefs die.
The small village Waitabu braced himself as the first community in Fiji against the consequences: The reefs have been designated as nature reserves, tourists and scuba divers may only after an environmental introduction to the corals, fishermen have to... Read Full Story
Enter your favorite coral reef photographs in the CORAL E-Current Photo Contest for a chance to win a copy of Reef —a gorgeous coffee table book featuring beautiful coral reef photographs contributed by Scubazoo photographers. Each winning photograph will be featured in an edition of E-Current , CORAL's free electronic newsletter. The names of winning photographers will also be posted on the CORAL website with their photographs, which will be available for download as desktop wallpaper . All... Read Full Story
Arctic Fox at risk (image from Billyboy on Flickr)
The polar bear may be the poster child for global warming, but if we pay attention, there are a number of animals that are trying to warn us about the perils of climate change. Last month, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released a report at the Copenhagen climate change conference listing 10 “flagship species” that will be particularly affected by environmental and habitat changes.
The impact of melting sea... Read Full Story
Villagers were in for a surprise when a delicacy they only heard of from their elders suddenly appeared in their fishing ground after 60 years. The long lost "ita" (kuita) or octopus' reemergence is the result of the setting aside of a tabu (prohibited fishing) area in their i qoliqoli. Not only did they find a few but as many as three to four for each person a day to take home, said Korolevu Yaubula chairman Apolosi Silaca with a big smile on his face. The vanua o Korolevu is in the... Read Full Story
After being a highly successful life form for 250 million years,
disruptions in the biological and communication systems of coral reefs have been found to be the
underlying cause of the coral bleaching and collapse of reef
ecosystems around the world. Coral reefs form the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which is visible from outer space (image). The reef is composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over... Read Full Story
Beasiswa Scholarships : Applications are invited for 2 Ph.D. positions at the Leibniz Center for
Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) (www.zmt-bremen.de) in Bremen, Germany in
the field ecology of coral reefs. These positions are within the
framework of the research project FORCE ?Future of Reefs in a Changing
Environment? funded by the European Union. FORCE partners an
inter-disciplinary team of researchers from Europe and the Caribbean to
enhance the scientific basis for managing coral... Read Full Story
As bad news about the environment piles up, it can be heartening to consider a conservation success story. I recently traveled to Fiji to visit the Namena Marine Reserve, a type of marine protected area (MPA) where conservation organizations and local villages are working together to save both reefs and local cultures from a variety of threats. For a week, I lived aboard the Nai'a, a 120-foot motorsailer yacht that research groups use as a base for their underwater studies. My journey was... Read Full Story
After being a highly successful life form for 250 million years, disruptions in the biological and communication systems of coral reefs have been found to be the underlying cause of the coral bleaching and collapse of reef ecosystems around the world. The coral reefs of world-renowned evironmental icon the Galapagos Islands are among those being threatened with exinction. The El Nino event of 1982 destroyed many coral reefs in the Galapagos, some of which had been living for 400 years... Read Full Story
Applications are invited for 2 Ph.D. positions at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) ( www.zmt-bremen.de ) in Bremen, Germany in the field ecology of coral reefs. These positions are within the
framework of the research project FORCE ?Future of Reefs in a Changing Environment? funded by the European Union. FORCE partners an inter-disciplinary team of researchers from Europe and the Caribbean to
enhance the scientific basis for managing coral reefs in an era of rapid... Read Full Story
