Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network<\/strong> along with the Australian government has released a report titled \u201c<\/span>Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020<\/i><\/strong>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Purpose of the Report<\/b>: To <\/span>highlight the main trends and recommendations to inform decision-making and strengthen ambition for the protection of coral reef ecosystems.<\/span><\/p>\n Coral reefs have suffered terribly in the past three decades. For instance, the 1998 coral bleaching event killed 8% of the world\u2019s coral. Subsequent events between 2009 and 2018 killed 14% of the world\u2019s coral.<\/span><\/p>\n Most declines in global coral cover were associated with either rapid increase in sea surface temperature (SST)<\/strong> anomaly or sustained high SST anomaly.<\/span><\/p>\n Moreover, there were 20% more algae on the world\u2019s coral reefs in 2019 than in 2010<\/strong>. The increase in the amount of algae was associated with declines in the amount of hard coral.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the increases in global coral cover between 2002 and 2009<\/strong> and in 2019 offered hope. It showed that coral reefs globally remained resilient<\/strong> and could recover if conditions permitted.<\/span><\/p>\n For example, coral reefs in East Asia, which has 30% of the world\u2019s coral reefs, had more coral on average in 2019 than they did in 1983. This, despite the area being affected by large-scale coral bleaching events during the last decade.<\/span><\/p>\n Reducing local pressures<\/strong> on coral reefs to maintain their resilience would be critical in the years to come.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Monitoring data<\/strong> collected in the field was also essential to understand the status of the trends in coral reef conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n Moreover, investments and developments of new technologies<\/strong> for coral reef protection is essential.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cThe world\u2019s coral reefs have suffered terribly in 30 years, but are resilient: Study\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Down To Earth <\/b>on <\/span>10th September 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network along with the Australian government has released a report titled \u201cStatus of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020\u201d. Purpose of the Report: To highlight the main trends and recommendations to inform decision-making and strengthen ambition for the protection of coral reef ecosystems. Key Highlights from the… Continue reading The world\u2019s coral reefs have suffered terribly in 30 years, but are resilient: Study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[575,235,8180],"class_list":["post-133355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-coral-reefs","tag-ecosystem","tag-protected-areas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704724387},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Key Highlights from the Study<\/b><\/h5>\n
Recommendations from the study<\/b><\/h5>\n