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Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC)
The Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission site is a knowledgebase intended to provide a guide to the function of APFIC and its work on promoting responsible and sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific region. This website has a good collection of grey information from Asia-Pacific region, presentations and reports from their various workshops as well as the formal FAO and APFIC commission publications.
http://www.apfic.org/
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Caribbean Challenge
The Nature Conservancy has pledged $20 million to support The Caribbean Challenge, an unprecedented commitment by Caribbean governments to support and manage new and existing national parks and protected areas throughout the region.
The overall goal of the Caribbean Challenge is ambitious — Caribbean governments will protect at least 20 percent of their marine and coastal habitats by 2020.
http://www.nature.org/initiatives/protectedareas/features/art24943.html
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Coordinating Body of the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA)
East Asian Seas Action Plan is steered by the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA) that is consisting of the ten member countries. The COBSEA Secretariat is in fact the lead agency of the United Nations for marine environmental matters in East Asia, responsible for co-ordinating the activities of governments, NGOs, UN and donor agencies, and individuals in caring for the region's marine environment.
http://www.cobsea.org/
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Coral Reef Conservation Program
From mapping and monitoring to managing reef resources and removing harmful debris, the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) addresses the priorities laid out in both the National Action Plan to Conserve Coral Reefs and the National Coral Reef Action Strategy. The CRCP supports effective management and sound science to preserve, sustain and restore valuable coral reef ecosystems to help fulfill NOAA’s requirements under a number of mandates, including the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 (CRCA).
The CRCP is a partnership between the NOAA Line Offices working on coral reef issues, including the National Ocean Service (NOS), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and the National Environmental Satellites, Data and Information Service (NESDIS).
http://www.coralreef.noaa.gov/outreach/links.html
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Coral Reef Information System Web site (CoRIS)
The Coral Reef Information System Web site (CoRIS) is designed to provide the public with a single point of access for coral reef data and information derived from many NOAA programs and projects, especially those that are part of NOAA’s activities on the National Coral Reef Task Force and NOAA’s implementation of the National Action Plan to Conserve Coral Reefs.
http://www.coris.noaa.gov/
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Coral Reef InitiativeS for the Pacific (CRISP)
The Initiative for the Protection and Management of Coral Reefs in the Pacific (CRISP), sponsored by France and prepared by the French Development Agency (AFD) as part of an inter-ministerial project from 2002 onwards, aims to develop a vision for the future of these unique eco-systems and the communities that depend on them and to introduce strategies and projects to conserve their biodiversity, while developing the economic and environmental services that they provide both locally and globally. Also, it is designed as a factor for integration between developed countries (Australia, New Zealand, Japan, USA), French overseas territories and Pacific Island developing countries.
http://www.crisponline.net/
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Coral Reef Targeted Research (CRTR)
The Coral Reef Targeted Research (CRTR) Program is seeking to fill the critical gaps in our global understanding of what determines coral reef ecosystem vulnerability and resilience to a range of key stressors – from localized human stress to climate change – and to inform policies and management interventions on behalf of the coral reefs and the communities that depend on them. A major focus of the CRTR Program is to build capacity in countries with coral reefs, to develop and sustain a robust research environment that continues to develop practical tools for policy shapers and reef managers.
http://www.gefcoral.org/
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Coral Reefs journal
Coral Reefs, the Journal of the International Society for Reef Studies, presents multidisciplinary literature across the broad fields of reef studies, publishing analytical and theoretical papers on both modern and ancient reefs. These encourage the search for theories about reef structure and dynamics, and the use of experimentation, modeling, quantification and the applied sciences.
Coverage includes such subject areas as population dynamics; community ecology of reef organisms; energy and nutrient flows; biogeochemical cycles; physiology of calcification; reef responses to natural and anthropogenic influences; stress markers in reef organisms; behavioural ecology; sedimentology; diagenesis; reef structure and morphology; evolutionary ecology of the reef biota; palaeoceanography of coral reefs and coral islands; reef management and its underlying disciplines; molecular biology and genetics of coral; aetiology of disease in reef-related organisms; reef responses to global change, and more.
http://www.springer.com/life+sci/ecology/journal/338
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Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI)
A new Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI), centered around high-level political commitments and proactive implementation by governments of the Coral Triangle area, and supported and carried forward by private sector, international agency and civil society (NGO) partners, could provide a major contribution toward safeguarding the region’s marine and coastal biological resources for the sustainable growth and prosperity of current and future generations.
http://www.cti-secretariat.net/
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International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN)
ICRAN is an innovative and dynamic network of many of the world's leading coral reef science and conservation organisations. The network consolidates technical and scientific expertise in reef monitoring and management to create strategically linked actions across local, national and global scales. ICRAN is thus the first alliance to respond to conservation needs at the global scale by recognising both traditional and scientific perspectives of coral reef dynamics and respective social dependency. It seeks to put mechanisms in place that support the translation of findings into direct on-the-ground action throughout the world's major coral reef regions.
http://www.icran.org/management-gef-lessonslearned.html
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Meso-American Barrier-Reef System (MBRS) Project
The MBRS Project is a five-year project encompassing the reef system and its associated resources on the Caribbean and Atlantic Coasts of Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. Belize's coastline is home to approximately 80% of those systems' The goal of the project is to improve the protection of the unique and vulnerable marine ecosystems that make up the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef and to assist the four countries to strengthen and coordinate national policies, laws and institutional efforts aimed at conservation and the sustainable use of this global public treasure. It is a lifetime project to safeguard the integrity and continued productivity of the Mesoamerican barrier reef.
http://ambergriscaye.com/pages/town/meso.html
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Micronesia Challenge
The Micronesia Challenge is a regional inter-governmental initiative in the western Pacific region that would facilitate more effective conservation of marine and forest resources in Micronesia.
On 5 November 2005, President of Palau Tommy E. Remengesau, Jr. called on his regional peers to join him in the Micronesia Challenge, which would conserve 30 percent of near shore coastal waters and 20 percent of forest land by 2020. Joining the initiative were Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and Marshall Islands, and the U.S. territories of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands. These nations and territories represent nearly 5 percent of the marine area of the Pacific Ocean and 7 percent of its coastlines.
http://www.palau.biodiv-chm.org/index.php?menuid=3600&lang=en&cl=blue
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Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA)
PEMSEA: Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (1994-2010): A Regional Mechanism Facilitating Sustainable Environmental Benefits in River Basins, Coasts, Islands and Seas is intended to provide readers with a general background and rationale to the various activities undertaken by PEMSEA, as well as its evolution and transformation since 1994. The major activities, outputs and outcomes over the past 14 years serve as the foundation on which new initiatives and action programs are being developed and undertaken from 2007 to 2010.
http://www.pemsea.org/
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SHARK Network
The aim of the network, SHARK, is to bring UNDP-GEF coral reef conservation projects together to create a unique forum for projects to exchange information and learn from each other. The benefit to projects to participate in this network will be that they do not have to ‘reinvent the wheel’ but can efficiently replicate best practice and conditions for success and avoid pitfalls. This in turn should lead to improved cost-effective impact. The Network will allow projects to learn from others facing similar challenges as well as provide an opportunity to share successes.
http://roo.undp.org/gef/shark/index.cfm
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South China Sea Project
The UNEP/GEF Project Entitled “Reversing Environmental Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand" is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in partnership with seven riparian states bordering the South China Sea (Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). Planning commenced in 1996 and the project became fully operational in February 2002.
http://www.unepscs.org/
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