Rules proposed to save the world's coral reefs

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Rules proposed to save the world's coral reefs
Public release date: 10-May-2009
Contact: Laurence MCook
l.mccook@gbrmpa.gov.au
61-074-750-0787
ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies

Rules proposed to save the world's coral reefs
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"The catastrophic decline in the world's coral reefs demands urgent management responses on two fronts," say the researchers from the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS), The Australian Museum, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, James Cook, Perpignan and the United Nations Universities and The Nature Conservancy.

These are the "...reduction of immediate direct threats such as climate change, over-fishing and water pollution, and actions to protect or enhance the resilience of reef ecosystems in the face of existing and unavoidable future threats," they say.

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Rules Proposed To Save The World's Coral Reefs

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Coral Can Recover from Climate Change Damage, New Research Suggests
ScienceDaily
Jan. 10, 2010

Coral can recover from climate change damage, new research suggests
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Scientists and environmentalists have warned that coral reefs may not be able to recover from the damage caused by climate change and that these unique environments could soon be lost forever. Now, this research adds weight to the argument that reducing levels of fishing is a viable way of protecting the world's most delicate aquatic ecosystems...