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[Organizations in FL, US in Advocacy & Human Rights, Education & Literacy, Justice & Legal, Animals, Emergency & Safety, Media & Broadcasting, Arts & Culture, Employment, Politics, Board Development, Environment, Race & Ethnicity, Children & Youth, Religion, Community, Health & Medicine, Seniors, Computers & Technology, Homeless & Housing, Sports & Recreation, Crisis Support, Hunger, Women, Disabled, Immigrants & Refugees, Disaster Relief or International] Smithsonian Marine Ecosystems Exhibit Detail: Other displays include seagrass, mangrove, lagoon hardbottom and nearshore reef habitats, as well as a deepwater Oculina coral reef. There are several smaller aquarium displays and a touch tank where you can meet some of our local sea creatures.

[Newswise: Latest News] NSU Receives $15 Million in Federal Stimulus Money to Build ...: dean of NSU’s Oceanographic Center and Director of the National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI) said this represents recognition of the tremendous value of coral reefs to the nations and also the considerable threats and stressors that are now impinging upon them. The new Center of Excellence in Coral Reef ecosystem science aims to find management and conservation solutions to these pressing issues.

[The Berkeley Electronic Press] Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers: The implications of the findings for the sustainable management of coral reefs, Marine Protected Areas, and Small Island Developing States are discussed. Finally, the potential of meta-analytical benefit transfer and scaling up of values at various aggregation levels is demonstrated in the context of coastal tourism and recreation in Europe.

[Overview Petitions - Care2: ThePetitionSite] Save and help protect Coral Reefs - The Petition Site: The University of Illinois study found that human sewage and shipyard discharge are making coral vulnerable to a deadly disease known as \"black band disease.\" Another danger to the reefs are oil spills: these generally occur close to shore, often when the tanker runs into rocks in the shallow waters.

[Wild Biology News] Nova Southeastern University to build largest coral reef research ...: dean of NSU's Oceanographic Center and Director of the National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI) said this represents recognition of the tremendous value of coral reefs to the nations and also the considerable threats and stressors that are now impinging upon them. The new Center of Excellence in Coral Reef ecosystem science aims to find management and conservation solutions to these pressing issues.

[Suite101: Pollution Control Articles] Global Warming Effects on Coral Reef Ecosystems: How Climate ...: Global warming, overfishing, and water pollution threats to ocean life, especially coral reef ecosystems, are explained in a U.S. NOAA National Ocean Service website article. A team plan by NOAA and the U.S. Nature Conservancy to protect coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean, Florida, Hawaii, and the Pacific Islands is announced in a Nature Conservancy press release.

[Latest Public Sector Features from www.publicservice.co.uk] United Nations to fight species loss - Public Service: Coral reef recreation has been estimated at US$184 per visit globally, while global coastal capture fisheries yield a minimum total of US$34bn annually. Overall, the international community is estimated to currently be experiencing a welfare loss of land-based ecosystem services of about €50bn each year, with a projected cumulative loss of €14trillion by 2050, or 7% of projected global GDP.

[Technology News | Mobiles | SEO | News papers | Make Money] Share on Twitter « Technology News | Mobiles | SEO | News papers ...: Coral reef ecosystems in Pakistan waters are at risk as reefs are experiencing local as well as international pollution stress. Some important sources of stress include nutrient enrichment from sewage and agriculture, over fishing, and stress from high sedimentation caused by deforestation, agriculture, vessel traffic, shoreline developments, trampling by careless divers and coastal runoff.

[AFS Blog] Crawling to Collapse: Ecologically Unsound Ornamental Invertebrate ...: In addition to a commercial fishery, Florida allows recreational saltwater fishing license holders to collect a small bag limit. To our knowledge, there is currently no accounting method for recreational catches.

[Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog] Study shows concensus, save the reefs: “Opinions about coral reefs varied, Needham said, but were mostly just variations on how much protection might be needed, with some people feeling more extreme than others. Virtually no one wanted expanded use of coral reefs to the extent it might degrade them for enjoyment by future generations, and many were willing to endorse any level of protection needed, even if it meant banning human use.

[Community Blog] The Coral Reef Alliance: Warm water bleaching events and ocean acidification are the one two punch that, if not reduced by lowering the carbon in the atmosphere, has the potential to lead to coral extinction.  While unthinkable as purely the loss of an ecosystem that has been on earth longer than humans, the societal toll will be just as great.  Corals are the oceans most productive fishery and feed over a billion people.  Corals also are the first line of coastal defense against storm waves for low lying coastal areas.  And it does not end there.  Coral reef animal toxins provide the key for many medicines that are on the cutting edge of cancer, viruses, and chronic pain control.  Simply put, saving reefs means saving the planet.

[swim butterfly] Visiting Florida on Your Next Road Trip | swim butterfly: For the marine species that live there, the park protects and showcases the only living coral reef in the continental United States. For those smart enough to stop over, there are dazzling saltwater spectacles to behold - gliding rainbows of tropical fish, spiny lobsters, vibrant coral formations and bobbing loggerhead turtles.

[Tasmanian Times] This is horrifying. The world's forests are a - Tasmanian Times: I believe The Australian is confusing the management of the reefs in so far as mandatory exclusion zones and the recovery of reefs from the absence of picks and hooks from recreational fishing vessels which were more often than not ripping the coral off the bottom, or the recreational and professional gatherers of reef specimens for the aquarium industry.

[diversitas conference] FINAL PRESS RELEASE: Experts concluding the global DIVERSITAS biodiversity conference today in Cape Town described preliminary research revealing jaw-dropping dollar values of the “ecosystem services” of biomes like forests and coral reefs - including food, pollution treatment and climate regulation.

[The Official MPA Blog] The Official MPA Blog: Transfrontier marine park a first: Africa's first - and largest - transfrontier marine conservation area has been established, connecting Maputaland in South Africa's World Heritage Site, the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, with Mozambique's first marine conservancy, the Ponto de Ouro Marine Protected Area.This creates a vast protected marine area covering 300km of unbroken coastline and near-pristine beaches, from St Lucia in the south to Mozambique's Maputo Special Reserve.It is made up of 220km on the South African side and 80km in Mozambique.The Mozambique protected area of 678 square kilometres includes Inhaca and Portuguese islands, the Maputo Special Reserve, and stretches three nautical miles out to sea.

[Vacation Cruise Travel Blog] Belize Yacht Charter | Vacation Cruise Travel Blog: Once inside the atolls the shoal waters are full of coral rock formations that lie in so many areas and in such numbers that the charts simply do not give clear insight to their locations. Communication on VHF is also non-existent, with mobile phones the most reliable means of communication, search and rescue is not very reliable and all this combined makes bare boating outside the reef untenable.

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