Status of coral reef and reef fish resources of Vanuatu
Report by William Naviti and James Aston
Protecting Connectivity Promotes Successful Biodiversity and Fisheries Conservation
The global decline of coral reefs had led to calls for strategies that reconcile biodiversity conservation and fisheries benefits. Still considerable gaps in our understanding of the spatial ecology of ecosystem services remain. We combined spatial information on larval dispersal networks and estimated of human pressure to test the importance of connectivity for ecosystem service provision. We found that reefs receiving larvae from highly connected dispersal corridors were associated with high fish species richness.
Coral Triangle
Coral Triangle documents
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A new rule protecting biodiversity off the coast of Motiti Island came into effect this week.
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No one will be allowed to take any kind of marine life from three reef areas surrounding Mōtītī Island from tomorrow onwards. This follows a decision made by the Environment Court that has ruled the area's biodiversity and cultural value to be special and in need of protection.
Coral Reef Threats - Reefs at Risk
Reefs at Risk Revisited is a high-resolution update of the original global analysis, Reefs at Risk: A Map-Based Indicator of Threats to the World’s Coral Reefs. Reefs at Risk Revisited uses a global map of coral reefs at 500-m resolution, which is 64 times more detailed than the 4-km resolution map used in the 1998 analysis, and benefits from improvements in many global data sets used to evaluate threats to reefs (most threat data are at 1 km resolution, which is 16 times more detailed than those used in the 1998 analysis).
State of the corals of PNG
The coral reefs in PNG are mostly located to the north and east coast of the country and lie within the ‘coral
triangle’ that includes eastern Indonesia, the Philippines, eastern Malaysia, Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands.
The coral triangle is a global centre of marine biodiversity and has very high conservation value.
This report documents the status, economies and management of corals -
Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands
Effective conservation requires rigorous baselines of pristine conditions to assess the impacts of human activities and to valuate the efficacy of management. The study found that top predators and reef-building organisms dominated unpopulated Kingman and Palmyra, while small planktivorous fishes and fleshy algae dominated the populated atolls of Tabuaeran and Kiritimati.
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The development has been the centre of controversy after locals complained construction work already underway was damaging the reef and foreshore. Click on the link below to read the full article.