NCRMP release summary of 2023 coral reef monitoring activities
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released a summary of its 2023 coral reef monitoring activities in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), conducted through its National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). This ongoing effort tracks the health of coral reefs by collecting biological data on fish populations, coral species, and […]
IFRECOR Release 2023 – 2024 Coral Bleaching Report for the French Lesser Antilles
January, 2024 – The Initiative Française Pour Les Récifs Coralliens (IFRECOR) release a coral Reef bleaching report for the French Lesser Antilles IFRECOR have released the latest report on coral reef bleaching in the French Lesser Antilles. This comprehensive assessment, covering the 2023 and 2024 bleaching events, provides critical insights into the health of coral […]
A Glimmer of Good News from the Mesoamerican Reef as reef health improved for the first time in five years, although the overall grade remains “poor”
MESOAMERICAN REEF – The 2024 Mesoamerican Reef Report Card was released today by Healthy Reefs for Healthy People (HRHP), in collaboration with over 70 organizations dedicated to the conservation of the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras that collectively form the Healthy Reefs Initiative (HRI). This regional initiative provides robust, useful data […]
GCRMN Caribbean Launches Call for Data
The GCRMN was established by ICRI in 1995 to monitor the condition of the world’s coral reefs. The GCRMN has published an extensive range of global, regional, and thematic reports on coral reef status and trends. The GCRMN collates and presents coral reef data, aggregating from national to regional levels, and then to a global […]
GCRMN-Caribbean Steering Committee meeting
The GCRMN Caribbean node coordinators are currently defining a roadmap to produce a new “Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs” report, nearly 10 years after the release of the previous regional report (Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970-2012). In this context, the Regional Activity Center for Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife of […]
GCRMN Caribbean network online survey
The GCRMN-Caribbean is an operational network of GCRMN in the Caribbean Region. It aims to ensure the collection of useful, comparable, and accessible data that can reveal the status and trends of the coral reef ecosystems in the Wider Caribbean Region. The network promotes an integrated approach with biophysical and socioeconomic data, to create regular, […]
New insights into Diadema mass mortality
Over the five last years, humanity has faced a new catastrophic pandemic with Covid-19. However, humans are not the only species to suffer from pandemics, and the impact of one pandemic is not limited to the species that it affects because of particular functions species fulfill within ecosystems. As such, a species extirpation following a […]
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