The Management Group provides the GCRMN with overall guidance and high-level advice on policy, strategies, links to governments, funding possibilities, coordination with international and other agencies and programs, including NGO activities, and linkages between the GCRMN and the representative agencies and committees. The Management Group maintains regular electronic contact with the GCRMN Global Coordinator and meets on an opportunistic basis to coincide with International Coral Reef Initiative meetings. The next meeting will be in October 2006 in Mexico.

Reef Check is a global environmental group established to facilitate community education, monitoring and management of coral reefs. Reef Check is active in more than 70 coral reef countries and territories, where it seeks to: educate the public about the coral reef crisis and how to prevent it; create a global network of volunteer teams that regularly monitor and report on reef health under the supervision of scientists; scientifically investigate coral reef processes; facilitate collaboration among academics, NGOs, governments and the private sector to solve coral reef problems; and stimulate community action to protect remaining pristine reefs and rehabilitate damaged reefs worldwide using ecologically sound and economically sustainable solutions. Under the ICRI framework, Reef Check is a primary GCRMN partner and coordinates GCRMN training programs in ecological and socio-economic monitoring, and coral reef management throughout the world.

Chris Knight
rcinfo@reefcheck.org
PO Box 8533, Calabasas, CA 91372
http://www.ReefCheck.org