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Lauretta Burke and Jon Maidens and contributing authors: Mark Spalding, Philip Kramer, Edmund Green, Suzie Greenhalgh, Hillary Nobles, Johnathan Kool

Synopsis

Seeks to provide quality information about the relationship between human activities and coral reef condition across the region.

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Many people in coastal communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean depend on the natural resources provided by reefs for their livelihoods. Ensuring proper management of the reefs is vital for the economic and environmental health of the region, but there is a lack of quality information about the relationship between human activities and coral reef condition across the region. The Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean project is a response to this information need. The primary goal of the project is to raise awareness and improve management of coral reefs across the region through improving the knowledge base on the status of and threats to coral reefs. In collaboration with partner institutions across the region, we are implementing an analysis to link human activities with reef condition. A major component of the project involves modeling (estimating) threat to coral reefs from human activities.

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• Preface by Jean-Michel Cousteau (91 Kb)
• Front matter (153 Kb)
• Chapter 1. Introduction (438 Kb)
• Chapter 2. Project approach and methodology (260 Kb)
• Chapter 3. Threats to coral reefs (967 Kb)
• Chapter 4. Status of Caribbean coral reefs (360 Kb)
• Chapter 5. Economic implications of coral reef degradation (331 Kb)
• Chapter 6. Conclusions and recommendations (302 Kb)
• Appendix A: Physical, Social, and Economic Statistics for the Caribbean Region (92 Kb)
• Appendix B: Data sources used in the Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean threat analysis (61 Kb)
• Appendix C: Information activities in the Caribbean (120 Kb)
• Acronyms and glossary (54 Kb)
• Notes (79 Kb)
• Technical notes on the Reefs at Risk Caribbean Threat Analysis (892 Kb)
• Technical notes on the Reefs at Risk Caribbean Threat Analysis (773 Kb)

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News & Views

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  Although the United States allows such interactions, the state has banned faculty members at Florida's public universities from having any contact with the island nation under a law enacted last week.

Press Releases

• March 9, 2005: WRI report says increasing human activities threaten Caribbean coral reefs.

  Nearly two-thirds of coral reefs in the Caribbean are threatened by human activities, according to a report released today by scientists at the World Resources Institute (WRI).

• March 9, 2005: Informe del WRI dice que el aumento de las actividades humanas amenaza los arrecifes coralinos del Caribe.

  Casi dos tercios de los arrecifes coralinos del Caribe están amenazados por las actividades humanas, según un informe publicado hoy por científicos del World Resources Institute (WRI).

• March 9, 2005: Relatório do WRI diz que as crescentes atividades humanas ameaçam recifes de corais do Caribe.

  Quase dois terços dos recifes de corais no Caribe estão sob ameaça pelas atividades humanas, de acordo a um relatório dado a público hoje por cientistas do World Resources Institute (WRI)

• September 29, 2004: WRI report says human activities threaten bulk of Caribbean coral reefs.

  Nearly two-thirds of coral reefs in the Caribbean are threatened by human activities, according to a new report by scientists at the World Resources Institute (WRI).