Global Warming Puts Half of All Reefs at Risk -- 20% already

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Global Warming Puts Half of All Reefs at Risk
GEELONG, Australia, October 25, 2005 (ENS) - Half of the world's coral reefs may die within the next 40 years unless urgent measures are taken to protect them from climate change, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warns in a new report released today. Warming ocean temperatures are causing reefs to bleach and die, but Marine Protected Areas can help.
The report, "Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching" was presented at the First International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC1) taking place in Geelong through Friday.
Some 520 delegates from 64 countries are attending the global conference organized by the IUCN and its World Commission on Protected Areas together with Australian governmental and institutional partners.
"Twenty percent of the Earth's coral reefs, arguably the richest of all marine ecosystems, have been effectively destroyed today," says Carl Gustaf Lundin, head of IUCN's Marine Programme. "Another 30 percent will become seriously depleted if no action is taken within the next 20-40 years, with climate change being a major factor for their loss."
Marine protected areas are key to preventing further degradation of these "underwater rainforests" by making corals more robust and helping them resist bleaching, advise the report's authors, Rod Salm and Gabriel Grimsditch.
"Destructive fishing practices such as blast or poison fishing can make coral reef more vulnerable to bleaching - it can decrease coral cover or deplete fish populations that are important for the coral reef ecosystem," says Salm, who serves as cirector of the Nature Conservancy's Coastal Marine Program.
Corals are animals that are usually coloured tan, green or blue due to the presence of millions of microscopic plant cells within their tissues. These tiny plants use sunlight and the coral animal's respired CO2 to produce energy rich compounds that feed the coral host and release oxygen.
When seas get too warm, the relationship collapses, the brown plant cells are ejected, the white coral skeleton becomes visible through the now transparent animal tissues, and the coral slowly starves.
coral Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef (Photo courtesy Australian Institute of Marine Science) Bleaching conditions that last longer than 10 weeks can lead to the death of the coral. In the worst ever recorded coral bleaching event in 1998, up to 90 percent of coral reefs died in some areas of the Indian Ocean.
"Current predictions are that massive coral bleaching will become a regular event over the next 50 years," warns Lundin.
He calls Marine Protected Areas a key tool, relieving coral reef ecosystems from other stress factors that also cause bleaching - sediment run-off, pollution, overfishing and invasive species.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has received international acclaim for efforts to extend protection to cover one-third of the world's largest coral reef, which the IUCN says should help the area better cope with water pollution and sudden outbreaks of the invasive and voracious crown-of-thorn starfish.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority says that under zero-stress conditions, reefs affected by the crown-of-thorns starfish can recover within seven to 15 years. But recovery can take much longer if the resilience of the ecosystem has been eroded by other stresses such as water pollution or bleaching.
The report recommends a strategy for the establishment of a global Marine Protected Areas network in the face of climate change, covering all important marine ecosystems including coral reefs.
"For a global MPA network, we need to take climate change into consideration. Some marine ecosystems become more valuable, others less so, which influences our decisions on which site should be included in the global network," says Lundin.
Sustainable fisheries management and integrated coastal management are seen as additional valuable strategies that enable coral reefs to be more resilient to bleaching.
IMPAC1 aims to advance Marine Protected Areas as a key tool for marine conservation, carrying forward the implementation of resolutions on these areas from the 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress. This gathering was the first to recognize that Marine Protected Areas are under-represented at the global level.
Only one percent of the world's oceans are under protection today.
In addressing marine issues, the conference is designed to embrace the entire global range of marine protected areas in-shore, reef, deep water, high seas and remote locations.
The delegates will aim to develop a blueprint for partnerships between Marine Protected Area managers, fisheries managers, management agencies, indigenous peoples, local communities and industries reliant on marine resources.
Presenters will provide examples or models of best practice approaches for biodiversity and ecological processes through the management of Marine Protected Areas, address emerging issues, and explore innovative approaches and possible solutions to enable effective management of these issues.
"Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching" is available at: www.impacongress.org

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Global Warming Puts Half of All Reefs at Risk
GEELONG, Australia, October 25, 2005 (ENS) - Half of the world's coral reefs may die within the next 40 years unless urgent measures are taken to protect them from climate change, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warns in a new report released today. Warming ocean temperatures are causing reefs to bleach and die, but Marine Protected Areas can help.
The report, "Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching" was presented at the First International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC1) taking place in Geelong through Friday.
Some 520 delegates from 64 countries are attending the global conference organized by the IUCN and its World Commission on Protected Areas together with Australian governmental and institutional partners.
"Twenty percent of the Earth's coral reefs, arguably the richest of all marine ecosystems, have been effectively destroyed today," says Carl Gustaf Lundin, head of IUCN's Marine Programme. "Another 30 percent will become seriously depleted if no action is taken within the next 20-40 years, with climate change being a major factor for their loss."
Marine protected areas are key to preventing further degradation of these "underwater rainforests" by making corals more robust and helping them resist bleaching, advise the report's authors, Rod Salm and Gabriel Grimsditch.
"Destructive fishing practices such as blast or poison fishing can make coral reef more vulnerable to bleaching - it can decrease coral cover or deplete fish populations that are important for the coral reef ecosystem," says Salm, who serves as cirector of the Nature Conservancy's Coastal Marine Program.
Corals are animals that are usually coloured tan, green or blue due to the presence of millions of microscopic plant cells within their tissues. These tiny plants use sunlight and the coral animal's respired CO2 to produce energy rich compounds that feed the coral host and release oxygen.
When seas get too warm, the relationship collapses, the brown plant cells are ejected, the white coral skeleton becomes visible through the now transparent animal tissues, and the coral slowly starves.
coral Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef (Photo courtesy Australian Institute of Marine Science) Bleaching conditions that last longer than 10 weeks can lead to the death of the coral. In the worst ever recorded coral bleaching event in 1998, up to 90 percent of coral reefs died in some areas of the Indian Ocean.
"Current predictions are that massive coral bleaching will become a regular event over the next 50 years," warns Lundin.
He calls Marine Protected Areas a key tool, relieving coral reef ecosystems from other stress factors that also cause bleaching - sediment run-off, pollution, overfishing and invasive species.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has received international acclaim for efforts to extend protection to cover one-third of the world's largest coral reef, which the IUCN says should help the area better cope with water pollution and sudden outbreaks of the invasive and voracious crown-of-thorn starfish.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority says that under zero-stress conditions, reefs affected by the crown-of-thorns starfish can recover within seven to 15 years. But recovery can take much longer if the resilience of the ecosystem has been eroded by other stresses such as water pollution or bleaching.
The report recommends a strategy for the establishment of a global Marine Protected Areas network in the face of climate change, covering all important marine ecosystems including coral reefs.
"For a global MPA network, we need to take climate change into consideration. Some marine ecosystems become more valuable, others less so, which influences our decisions on which site should be included in the global network," says Lundin.
Sustainable fisheries management and integrated coastal management are seen as additional valuable strategies that enable coral reefs to be more resilient to bleaching.
IMPAC1 aims to advance Marine Protected Areas as a key tool for marine conservation, carrying forward the implementation of resolutions on these areas from the 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress. This gathering was the first to recognize that Marine Protected Areas are under-represented at the global level.
Only one percent of the world's oceans are under protection today.
In addressing marine issues, the conference is designed to embrace the entire global range of marine protected areas in-shore, reef, deep water, high seas and remote locations.
The delegates will aim to develop a blueprint for partnerships between Marine Protected Area managers, fisheries managers, management agencies, indigenous peoples, local communities and industries reliant on marine resources.
Presenters will provide examples or models of best practice approaches for biodiversity and ecological processes through the management of Marine Protected Areas, address emerging issues, and explore innovative approaches and possible solutions to enable effective management of these issues.
"Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching" is available at: www.impacongress.org
All the CO2 and SO2 spewed out by volcanoes and mid-ocean plates dwarfs the output of human activity. Environmentalists are pissing into the wind.
That's totally false, and has been debunked many times here. It would behoove

you to stop blinding posting things you read on right-wing web sites.

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http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2005/2005-10-25-05.asp
Global Warming Puts Half of All Reefs at Risk
GEELONG, Australia, October 25, 2005 (ENS) - Half of the world's coral reefs may die within the next 40 years unless urgent measures are taken to protect them from climate change, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warns in a new report released today. Warming ocean temperatures are causing reefs to bleach and die, but Marine Protected Areas can help.
The report, "Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching" was presented at the First International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC1) taking place in Geelong through Friday.
Some 520 delegates from 64 countries are attending the global conference organized by the IUCN and its World Commission on Protected Areas together with Australian governmental and institutional partners.
"Twenty percent of the Earth's coral reefs, arguably the richest of all marine ecosystems, have been effectively destroyed today," says Carl Gustaf Lundin, head of IUCN's Marine Programme. "Another 30 percent will become seriously depleted if no action is taken within the next 20-40 years, with climate change being a major factor for their loss."
Marine protected areas are key to preventing further degradation of these "underwater rainforests" by making corals more robust and helping them resist bleaching, advise the report's authors, Rod Salm and Gabriel Grimsditch.
"Destructive fishing practices such as blast or poison fishing can make coral reef more vulnerable to bleaching - it can decrease coral cover or deplete fish populations that are important for the coral reef ecosystem," says Salm, who serves as cirector of the Nature Conservancy's Coastal Marine Program.
Corals are animals that are usually coloured tan, green or blue due to the presence of millions of microscopic plant cells within their tissues. These tiny plants use sunlight and the coral animal's respired CO2 to produce energy rich compounds that feed the coral host and release oxygen.
When seas get too warm, the relationship collapses, the brown plant cells are ejected, the white coral skeleton becomes visible through the now transparent animal tissues, and the coral slowly starves.
coral Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef (Photo courtesy Australian Institute of Marine Science) Bleaching conditions that last longer than 10 weeks can lead to the death of the coral. In the worst ever recorded coral bleaching event in 1998, up to 90 percent of coral reefs died in some areas of the Indian Ocean.
"Current predictions are that massive coral bleaching will become a regular event over the next 50 years," warns Lundin.
He calls Marine Protected Areas a key tool, relieving coral reef ecosystems from other stress factors that also cause bleaching - sediment run-off, pollution, overfishing and invasive species.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has received international acclaim for efforts to extend protection to cover one-third of the world's largest coral reef, which the IUCN says should help the area better cope with water pollution and sudden outbreaks of the invasive and voracious crown-of-thorn starfish.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority says that under zero-stress conditions, reefs affected by the crown-of-thorns starfish can recover within seven to 15 years. But recovery can take much longer if the resilience of the ecosystem has been eroded by other stresses such as water pollution or bleaching.
The report recommends a strategy for the establishment of a global Marine Protected Areas network in the face of climate change, covering all important marine ecosystems including coral reefs.
"For a global MPA network, we need to take climate change into consideration. Some marine ecosystems become more valuable, others less so, which influences our decisions on which site should be included in the global network," says Lundin.
Sustainable fisheries management and integrated coastal management are seen as additional valuable strategies that enable coral reefs to be more resilient to bleaching.
IMPAC1 aims to advance Marine Protected Areas as a key tool for marine conservation, carrying forward the implementation of resolutions on these areas from the 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress. This gathering was the first to recognize that Marine Protected Areas are under-represented at the global level.
Only one percent of the world's oceans are under protection today.
In addressing marine issues, the conference is designed to embrace the entire global range of marine protected areas in-shore, reef, deep water, high seas and remote locations.
The delegates will aim to develop a blueprint for partnerships between Marine Protected Area managers, fisheries managers, management agencies, indigenous peoples, local communities and industries reliant on marine resources.
Presenters will provide examples or models of best practice approaches for biodiversity and ecological processes through the management of Marine Protected Areas, address emerging issues, and explore innovative approaches and possible solutions to enable effective management of these issues.
"Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching" is available at: www.impacongress.org
All the CO2 and SO2 spewed out by volcanoes and mid-ocean plates dwarfs the

output of human activity. Environmentalists are pissing into the wind.

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All the CO2 and SO2 spewed out by volcanoes and mid-ocean plates dwarfs the output of human activity. Environmentalists are pissing into the wind.

I would advise you to check where you got this misconception from and immediately flag everything else you got from there as dubious. This volcano line is a delibrate lie at whatever its source.
In fact the entire CO2 output of all volcanoes in the world is roughly 1/150 of human emissions. http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/Gases/man.html
-- Coby Beck (remove #\Space "coby 101 @ bigpond . com")

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Global Warming Puts Half of All Reefs at Risk
GEELONG, Australia, October 25, 2005 (ENS) - Half of the world's coral reefs may die within the next 40 years unless urgent measures are taken to protect them from climate change, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warns in a new report released today. Warming ocean temperatures are causing reefs to bleach and die, but Marine Protected Areas can help.
The report, "Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching" was presented at the First International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC1) taking place in Geelong through Friday.
Some 520 delegates from 64 countries are attending the global conference organized by the IUCN and its World Commission on Protected Areas together with Australian governmental and institutional partners.
"Twenty percent of the Earth's coral reefs, arguably the richest of all marine ecosystems, have been effectively destroyed today," says Carl Gustaf Lundin, head of IUCN's Marine Programme. "Another 30 percent will become seriously depleted if no action is taken within the next 20-40 years, with climate change being a major factor for their loss."
Marine protected areas are key to preventing further degradation of these "underwater rainforests" by making corals more robust and helping them resist bleaching, advise the report's authors, Rod Salm and Gabriel Grimsditch.
"Destructive fishing practices such as blast or poison fishing can make coral reef more vulnerable to bleaching - it can decrease coral cover or deplete fish populations that are important for the coral reef ecosystem," says Salm, who serves as cirector of the Nature Conservancy's Coastal Marine Program.
Corals are animals that are usually coloured tan, green or blue due to the presence of millions of microscopic plant cells within their tissues. These tiny plants use sunlight and the coral animal's respired CO2 to produce energy rich compounds that feed the coral host and release oxygen.
When seas get too warm, the relationship collapses, the brown plant cells are ejected, the white coral skeleton becomes visible through the now transparent animal tissues, and the coral slowly starves.
coral Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef (Photo courtesy Australian Institute of Marine Science) Bleaching conditions that last longer than 10 weeks can lead to the death of the coral. In the worst ever recorded coral bleaching event in 1998, up to 90 percent of coral reefs died in some areas of the Indian Ocean.
"Current predictions are that massive coral bleaching will become a regular event over the next 50 years," warns Lundin.
He calls Marine Protected Areas a key tool, relieving coral reef ecosystems from other stress factors that also cause bleaching - sediment run-off, pollution, overfishing and invasive species.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has received international acclaim for efforts to extend protection to cover one-third of the world's largest coral reef, which the IUCN says should help the area better cope with water pollution and sudden outbreaks of the invasive and voracious crown-of-thorn starfish.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority says that under zero-stress conditions, reefs affected by the crown-of-thorns starfish can recover within seven to 15 years. But recovery can take much longer if the resilience of the ecosystem has been eroded by other stresses such as water pollution or bleaching.
The report recommends a strategy for the establishment of a global Marine Protected Areas network in the face of climate change, covering all important marine ecosystems including coral reefs.
"For a global MPA network, we need to take climate change into consideration. Some marine ecosystems become more valuable, others less so, which influences our decisions on which site should be included in the global network," says Lundin.
Sustainable fisheries management and integrated coastal management are seen as additional valuable strategies that enable coral reefs to be more resilient to bleaching.
IMPAC1 aims to advance Marine Protected Areas as a key tool for marine conservation, carrying forward the implementation of resolutions on these areas from the 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress. This gathering was the first to recognize that Marine Protected Areas are under-represented at the global level.
Only one percent of the world's oceans are under protection today.
In addressing marine issues, the conference is designed to embrace the entire global range of marine protected areas in-shore, reef, deep water, high seas and remote locations.
The delegates will aim to develop a blueprint for partnerships between Marine Protected Area managers, fisheries managers, management agencies, indigenous peoples, local communities and industries reliant on marine resources.
Presenters will provide examples or models of best practice approaches for biodiversity and ecological processes through the management of Marine Protected Areas, address emerging issues, and explore innovative approaches and possible solutions to enable effective management of these issues.
"Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching" is available at: www.impacongress.org
All the CO2 and SO2 spewed out by volcanoes and mid-ocean plates dwarfs the output of human activity. Environmentalists are pissing into the wind.
That's totally false, and has been debunked many times here. It would behoove you to stop blinding posting things you read on right-wing web sites.

That is NOT false. In fact there is a single volcano in Africa that equals the CO2 output of the US. You have no idea, apparently, of volcanism. Not to mention the 146 underground coal fires going on throughout the world. This is only debunked by morons.

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"Lloyd Parker" wrote in message In article , "Nog" <iiiiiiiiii8@verizon.net wrote: All the CO2 and SO2 spewed out by volcanoes and mid-ocean plates dwarfs the output of human activity. Environmentalists are pissing into the wind.
That's totally false, and has been debunked many times here. It would behoove you to stop blinding posting things you read on right-wing web sites.
That is NOT false. In fact there is a single volcano in Africa that equals the CO2 output of the US. You have no idea, apparently, of volcanism. Not to mention the 146 underground coal fires going on throughout the world. This is only debunked by morons.

Hi Nog,
Do you have a reference to support this? What are the numbers involved, how much CO2 from this volcano (what is its name?) and how much CO2 comes from the US? You really should double check that because it is definately not true.
-- Coby Beck (remove #\Space "coby 101 @ bigpond . com")

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Global Warming Puts Half of All Reefs at Risk
GEELONG, Australia, October 25, 2005 (ENS) - Half of the world's coral reefs may die within the next 40 years unless urgent measures are taken to protect them from climate change, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warns in a new report released today. Warming ocean temperatures are causing reefs to bleach and die, but Marine Protected Areas can help.
The report, "Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching" was presented at the First International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC1) taking place in Geelong through Friday.
Some 520 delegates from 64 countries are attending the global conference organized by the IUCN and its World Commission on Protected Areas together with Australian governmental and institutional partners.
"Twenty percent of the Earth's coral reefs, arguably the richest of all marine ecosystems, have been effectively destroyed today," says Carl Gustaf Lundin, head of IUCN's Marine Programme. "Another 30 percent will become seriously depleted if no action is taken within the next 20-40 years, with climate change being a major factor for their loss."
Marine protected areas are key to preventing further degradation of these "underwater rainforests" by making corals more robust and helping them resist bleaching, advise the report's authors, Rod Salm and Gabriel Grimsditch.
"Destructive fishing practices such as blast or poison fishing can make coral reef more vulnerable to bleaching - it can decrease coral cover or deplete fish populations that are important for the coral reef ecosystem," says Salm, who serves as cirector of the Nature Conservancy's Coastal Marine Program.
Corals are animals that are usually coloured tan, green or blue due to the presence of millions of microscopic plant cells within their tissues. These tiny plants use sunlight and the coral animal's respired CO2 to produce energy rich compounds that feed the coral host and release oxygen.
When seas get too warm, the relationship collapses, the brown plant cells are ejected, the white coral skeleton becomes visible through the now transparent animal tissues, and the coral slowly starves.
coral Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef (Photo courtesy Australian Institute of Marine Science) Bleaching conditions that last longer than 10 weeks can lead to the death of the coral. In the worst ever recorded coral bleaching event in 1998, up to 90 percent of coral reefs died in some areas of the Indian Ocean.
"Current predictions are that massive coral bleaching will become a regular event over the next 50 years," warns Lundin.
He calls Marine Protected Areas a key tool, relieving coral reef ecosystems from other stress factors that also cause bleaching - sediment run-off, pollution, overfishing and invasive species.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has received international acclaim for efforts to extend protection to cover one-third of the world's largest coral reef, which the IUCN says should help the area better cope with water pollution and sudden outbreaks of the invasive and voracious crown-of-thorn starfish.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority says that under zero-stress conditions, reefs affected by the crown-of-thorns starfish can recover within seven to 15 years. But recovery can take much longer if the resilience of the ecosystem has been eroded by other stresses such as water pollution or bleaching.
The report recommends a strategy for the establishment of a global Marine Protected Areas network in the face of climate change, covering all important marine ecosystems including coral reefs.
"For a global MPA network, we need to take climate change into consideration. Some marine ecosystems become more valuable, others less so, which influences our decisions on which site should be included in the global network," says Lundin.
Sustainable fisheries management and integrated coastal management are seen as additional valuable strategies that enable coral reefs to be more resilient to bleaching.
IMPAC1 aims to advance Marine Protected Areas as a key tool for marine conservation, carrying forward the implementation of resolutions on these areas from the 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress. This gathering was the first to recognize that Marine Protected Areas are under-represented at the global level.
Only one percent of the world's oceans are under protection today.
In addressing marine issues, the conference is designed to embrace the entire global range of marine protected areas in-shore, reef, deep water, high seas and remote locations.
The delegates will aim to develop a blueprint for partnerships between Marine Protected Area managers, fisheries managers, management agencies, indigenous peoples, local communities and industries reliant on marine resources.
Presenters will provide examples or models of best practice approaches for biodiversity and ecological processes through the management of Marine Protected Areas, address emerging issues, and explore innovative approaches and possible solutions to enable effective management of these issues.
"Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching" is available at: www.impacongress.org
All the CO2 and SO2 spewed out by volcanoes and mid-ocean plates dwarfs the output of human activity. Environmentalists are pissing into the wind.
That's totally false, and has been debunked many times here. It would behoove you to stop blinding posting things you read on right-wing web sites.
That is NOT false. In fact there is a single volcano in Africa that equals the CO2 output of the US. You have no idea, apparently, of volcanism. Not to mention the 146 underground coal fires going on throughout the world. This is only debunked by morons.

You are correct, man-made CO2 is about 2% of the total. But here is the rub, the total was balanced before that added 2%. A hundred years ago the CO2 in the atmosphere was approximately 225 ppm, now it's 340 ppm and rising.
If you look at Venus, a planet approximately earths size, it has 30,000 times as much CO2 in it's atmosphere as earth. There is LOTS of carbon on earth, much of it in hydrocarbons, much of it tied up in minerals such as calcium carbonate, so I don't believe we're in any danger of running out of hydrocarbons.
But the weather on Venus is a bit toasty.
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Global Warming Puts Half of All Reefs at Risk
GEELONG, Australia, October 25, 2005 (ENS) - Half of the world's coral reefs may die within the next 40 years unless urgent measures are taken to protect them from climate change, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warns in a new report released today. Warming ocean temperatures are causing reefs to bleach and die, but Marine Protected Areas can help.
The report, "Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching" was presented at the First International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC1) taking place in Geelong through Friday.
Some 520 delegates from 64 countries are attending the global conference organized by the IUCN and its World Commission on Protected Areas together with Australian governmental and institutional partners.
"Twenty percent of the Earth's coral reefs, arguably the richest of all marine ecosystems, have been effectively destroyed today," says Carl Gustaf Lundin, head of IUCN's Marine Programme. "Another 30 percent will become seriously depleted if no action is taken within the next 20-40 years, with climate change being a major factor for their loss."
Marine protected areas are key to preventing further degradation of these "underwater rainforests" by making corals more robust and helping them resist bleaching, advise the report's authors, Rod Salm and Gabriel Grimsditch.
"Destructive fishing practices such as blast or poison fishing can make coral reef more vulnerable to bleaching - it can decrease coral cover or deplete fish populations that are important for the coral reef ecosystem," says Salm, who serves as cirector of the Nature Conservancy's Coastal Marine Program.
Corals are animals that are usually coloured tan, green or blue due to the presence of millions of microscopic plant cells within their tissues. These tiny plants use sunlight and the coral animal's respired CO2 to produce energy rich compounds that feed the coral host and release oxygen.
When seas get too warm, the relationship collapses, the brown plant cells are ejected, the white coral skeleton becomes visible through the now transparent animal tissues, and the coral slowly starves.
coral Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef (Photo courtesy Australian Institute of Marine Science) Bleaching conditions that last longer than 10 weeks can lead to the death of the coral. In the worst ever recorded coral bleaching event in 1998, up to 90 percent of coral reefs died in some areas of the Indian Ocean.
"Current predictions are that massive coral bleaching will become a regular event over the next 50 years," warns Lundin.
He calls Marine Protected Areas a key tool, relieving coral reef ecosystems from other stress factors that also cause bleaching - sediment run-off, pollution, overfishing and invasive species.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has received international acclaim for efforts to extend protection to cover one-third of the world's largest coral reef, which the IUCN says should help the area better cope with water pollution and sudden outbreaks of the invasive and voracious crown-of-thorn starfish.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority says that under zero-stress conditions, reefs affected by the crown-of-thorns starfish can recover within seven to 15 years. But recovery can take much longer if the resilience of the ecosystem has been eroded by other stresses such as water pollution or bleaching.
The report recommends a strategy for the establishment of a global Marine Protected Areas network in the face of climate change, covering all important marine ecosystems including coral reefs.
"For a global MPA network, we need to take climate change into consideration. Some marine ecosystems become more valuable, others less so, which influences our decisions on which site should be included in the global network," says Lundin.
Sustainable fisheries management and integrated coastal management are seen as additional valuable strategies that enable coral reefs to be more resilient to bleaching.
IMPAC1 aims to advance Marine Protected Areas as a key tool for marine conservation, carrying forward the implementation of resolutions on these areas from the 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress. This gathering was the first to recognize that Marine Protected Areas are under-represented at the global level.
Only one percent of the world's oceans are under protection today.
In addressing marine issues, the conference is designed to embrace the entire global range of marine protected areas in-shore, reef, deep water, high seas and remote locations.
The delegates will aim to develop a blueprint for partnerships between Marine Protected Area managers, fisheries managers, management agencies, indigenous peoples, local communities and industries reliant on marine resources.
Presenters will provide examples or models of best practice approaches for biodiversity and ecological processes through the management of Marine Protected Areas, address emerging issues, and explore innovative approaches and possible solutions to enable effective management of these issues.
"Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching" is available at: www.impacongress.org
All the CO2 and SO2 spewed out by volcanoes and mid-ocean plates dwarfs the output of human activity. Environmentalists are pissing into the wind.
That's totally false, and has been debunked many times here. It would behoove you to stop blinding posting things you read on right-wing web sites.
That is NOT false. In fact there is a single volcano in Africa that equals the CO2 output of the US. You have no idea, apparently, of volcanism. Not to mention the 146 underground coal fires going on throughout the world. This is only debunked by morons.
You are correct, man-made CO2 is about 2% of the total. But here is the rub, the total was balanced before that added 2%. A hundred years ago the CO2 in the atmosphere was approximately 225 ppm, now it's 340 ppm and rising.
If you look at Venus, a planet approximately earths size, it has 30,000 times as much CO2 in it's atmosphere as earth. There is LOTS of carbon on earth, much of it in hydrocarbons, much of it tied up in minerals such as calcium carbonate, so I don't believe we're in any danger of running out of hydrocarbons.
But the weather on Venus is a bit toasty.

We now have the techonology to build CO2 scrubber farms and remove all that we create (2%). This would not stop global warming. The globe will continue to warm until it begins cooling again and heads into the next ice age. Right now we are still thawing out from the last ice age, hence glacier melting. The earth has been cycling into and out of ice ages for millions of years without human help. Everything going on with climate is part of the process. No sense to panic and make all kinds of paranoid misguided decisions at great cost and zero effect.

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Nog wrote:

We now have the techonology to build CO2 scrubber farms and remove all that we create (2%).

There is no technolgy in existence which can do this. State the mass (weight) of carbon, and the mass (weight) of atmosphere, and you will soon see this would be the most massive project ever built by the human race.
It is so much simpler and cheaper to swirch to H2-PV and forget about Co2 problems forever.

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"Nog" wrote in message
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In article , "Nog" <iiiiiiiiii8@verizon.net wrote:
All the CO2 and SO2 spewed out by volcanoes and mid-ocean plates dwarfs the output of human activity. Environmentalists are pissing into the wind.

That's totally false, and has been debunked many times here. It would behoove you to stop blinding posting things you read on right-wing web sites.
That is NOT false. In fact there is a single volcano in Africa that equals the CO2 output of the US. You have no idea, apparently, of volcanism. Not to mention the 146 underground coal fires going on throughout the world. This is only debunked by morons.
Hi Nog,
Do you have a reference to support this? What are the numbers involved, how much CO2 from this volcano (what is its name?) and how much CO2 comes from the US? You really should double check that because it is definately not true.

The only "nuke winter" to happen on earth was a volcano. Leading to the the last ice age.More recently eruptions on MT Helen and near Manila. Made a bad smog alert in the city, look like a clear day.
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