'%Healthy Reefs for Healthy People - A Guide to Indicators of Reef Health and Social Well-being in the Mesoamerican Reef Region%'%by Melanie McField and Patricia Kramer%

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Dat a Needs

Based on World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) ecoregional

assessment (primarily based on Landsat images from

Regionally consistent data, including historical

the late 1990s) the breakdown of mangrove cover by

baseline data from approximately 1990, need to be

country within the MAR ecoregional boundary is as

analyzed and made available.

follows37:

We recommend: 1) regularly tracking mangrove forest

Mexico: 2,247 km2 (64%)

extent, using a regionally standardized assessment

Belize: 812 km2 (23%)

protocol, 2) sharing information in a readily assessible

database, and 3) basic monitoring by remote sensing

Honduras: 405 km2 (12%)

coupled with field-based ground-truthing.

Guatemala: 39 km2 (1%).

Canon/Anthony B. Rath / WWF

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