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RED ALERT: NEW CORAL DISEASE EPIDEMIC SPREADING All reef monitoring teams should be on the lookout for two new coral diseases that have been ravaging Florida for several years, and now appears to have spread to Jamaica after its severe…

El Sistema Arrecifal Mesoamericano (SAM) es uno de los más grandes ecosistemas arrecifales coralinos en el mundo, que alberga una biodiversidad única y que provee bienes y servicios ecosistémicos fundamentales a casi dos millones de personas. Este ecosistema, y los…

The Mesoamerican Reef System (MAR) is one of the largest coral reef ecosystems in the world, which supports unique biodiversity and provides critical ecosystem goods and services to nearly two million people. These ecosystems, and the goods and services they…

Attention HRI Partners: A new MS program, the Coastal Science and Policy Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is looking for the students who will start the next generation of conservation ORGs. This new program will select the…

This Handbook brings together a carefully chosen set of world-class contributions from ecology, economics, and other development science and attempts to provide policy relevant scientific information on ecosystem services from marine and coastal ecosystems, nuances of economic valuation, relevant legal…

Our 2017 Newsletter is now available for you to download and read! It is an immense pleasure to publish the May 2017 newsletter of the Healthy Reefs Initiative. This international collaboration of over 67 partner organizations aims to improve the…

Our HRI Regional Partners Meeting took place in Playa del Carmen, Q. Roo at the Hotel Grand Palladium, from December 1st to the 3rd, 2016. Over 40 people from the 4 Mesoamerican countries (Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras), attended the…

The trans-disciplinary thematic areas of oceans management and policy require stocktaking of the state of knowledge on ecosystem services being derived from coastal and marine areas. Recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) especially Goals 14 and 15 explicitly focus on…

According to a new report from the World Bank, less means more – at least when it comes to fishing. In “Sunken Billions Revisited: Progress and Challenges in Global Marine Fisheries,” researchers with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the University…

Increasingly frequent severe coral bleaching is among the greatest threats to coral reefs posed by climate change. Emissions scenario RCP4.5 represents lower emissions mid-century than will eventuate if pledges made following the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21) become reality.