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Description:
Author(s):
College of the Marshall Islands
Title:
Monitoring the effects of human and natural disturbances at Majuro Atoll
Publication Date:
2011
Institution:
College of the Marshall Islands
Page(s):
17
Type Period Note:
Final Sumary Report, 10/01/2010 - 09/30/2011
Abstract:
With each site visited, there is an amplified impression of increasingly degraded reefs on Majuro. This is a slow-motion crisis. The reefs are dying! The ongoing mining of near-shore reefs is in this context alarming. Local food security is being put at ever increasing risk, as the ecological functioning of reefs, as both food and shelter for fish, is further reduced. It is time to stop this destruction and begin a process of reef restoration.
Keywords:
coral monitoring, status, preservation, conservation
Electronic Access:
Notes:
FY2011 CRCP grant award NA10NOS4260049
Grant Number(s):
NA10NOS4260049
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