A landmark global study has identified more than 165,000 square kilometres of coral reefs across 71 countries with the strongest potential to survive a warming world – tripling previous estimates and offering a rare note of hope for one of the ocean’s most threatened ecosystems.
The research, presented at the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Macquarie University, with support from the Bloomberg Ocean Initiative, marks a significant advance in understanding which reefs may endure as global temperatures continue to rise. It forms the basis of a new civil society campaign, Our Reefs, Our Future, calling on governments to prioritise the protection of these reefs from local, immediate threats.
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