What are corals? - ICRI
Coral reefs are found throughout the oceans, from deep, cold waters to shallow, tropical waters. Temperate and tropical reefs however are formed only in a zone extending at most from 30°N to 30°S of the equator; the reef-building corals prefering to grow at depths shallower than 30 m (100 ft), or where the temperature range is between 16-32oc ...
Over 40% of coral species face extinction – IUCN Red List
Nov 13, 2024 · New 5-km Coral Bleaching Products - Higher spatial resolution is the improvement to NOAA Coral Reef Watch remote-sensing products most requested by coral reef ecosystem scientists and resource managers. NOAA Coral Reef Watch and its partners have developed a new experimental daily global 5 km coral bleaching thermal stress monitoring product suite, …
Dec 21, 2020 · Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) to better define best practices for coral restoration for the maintenance of ecosystem services, including for coastal defence and restoration of fish nursery areas. The coming UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) and Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), provide
The Fourth Global Coral Bleaching Event | ICRI
May 14, 2024 · Networks such as the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, an operational network of ICRI, and the US Coral Reef Task Force, provide mechanisms for reporting on the impact of bleaching on the World’s coral reefs, alongside regional bleaching observation networks. “Long-term data on of coral reef condition can put events like this into context.
French Polynesia mobilises the world to confirm the synchronised …
Jan 14, 2025 · New 5-km Coral Bleaching Products - Higher spatial resolution is the improvement to NOAA Coral Reef Watch remote-sensing products most requested by coral reef ecosystem scientists and resource managers. NOAA Coral Reef Watch and its partners have developed a new experimental daily global 5 km coral bleaching thermal stress monitoring product suite, …
New Indonesia Coral Bond - ICRI
Jun 24, 2024 · New 5-km Coral Bleaching Products - Higher spatial resolution is the improvement to NOAA Coral Reef Watch remote-sensing products most requested by coral reef ecosystem scientists and resource managers. NOAA Coral Reef Watch and its partners have developed a new experimental daily global 5 km coral bleaching thermal stress monitoring product suite, …
Jul 4, 2024 · For coral mortality, most observations were in the Low (35%) and Medium (30%) categories. However, a notable 10% of reefs experienced High mortality, and 0.6% faced Extreme Figure 4 Distribution of bleaching reports submitted by country in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region during the 2024
Coral bleaching and mortality in the Chagos Archipelago, 2024
Feb 4, 2025 · New 5-km Coral Bleaching Products - Higher spatial resolution is the improvement to NOAA Coral Reef Watch remote-sensing products most requested by coral reef ecosystem scientists and resource managers. NOAA Coral Reef Watch and its partners have developed a new experimental daily global 5 km coral bleaching thermal stress monitoring product suite, …
Today, in less than a decade, coral reef restoration is now widely accepted. In our case we want to restore coral reef ecosystem services. Turning back the clock and trying to restore coral reefs as they were pre-bleaching is impossible in our view. The large “designer reef” we have implanted in the no-take Cousin Island Special Reserve
Coral reefs of Maldives •26 Natural atolls •16 complex atolls •5 oceanic faros •4 oceanic platform reefs •248 coral species, 57 genera •National coral cover •pre-1998 bleaching: 46.5% •Pre-2024 bleaching: <10%