Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2002

The 2002 report on the status of the world’s coral reefs is a mix of bad news and good news, but there is strong evidence that the corner is being turned in our ability to stop reef decline, provided this continues to be supported by sufficient political will.

We can predict gains in coral reef health at specific sites in many regions within the coming 2 decades. Many different projects are reducing the damaging human impacts on coral reefs and also setting more reefs aside for protection.

Unfortunately, a large proportion of the world’s reefs are outside protected areas, and much effort will be needed to replicate the small-scale successes at national and regional scales. In addition, many coral reef countries do not have national coral reef programs or monitoring plans, and are often unaware of the extent of damage to their reefs.
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Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2002
Full report (4Mb)
Countries, States and Territories
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Executive Summary
Clive Wilkinson
1. Coral Bleaching and Mortality – the 1998 Event 4 Years Later and Bleaching to 2002.
Clive Wilkinson
2. Status of Coral Reefs in the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden.
Moshira Hassan, Mohammed M. A. Kotb and Abdulmohsin A. Al-Sofyani
3. Status of Coral Reefs of the Persian/Arabian Gulf and Arabian Sea Region.
Simon Wilson, Seyed Mohammad Reza Fatemi, Mohammad Reza Shokri and Michel Claereboudt
4. Status of Coral Reefs in Eastern Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa.
David Obura and Contributors – Louis Celliers, Haji Machano, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Mohammed S. Mohammed, Helena Motta, Christopher Muhando, Nyawira Muthiga, Marcos Pereira and Michael Schleyer
5. Status of Coral Reefs in the South West Indian Ocean Island Node: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles.
Said Ahamada, Lionel Bigot, Jude Bijoux, Jean Maharavo Jean, Sabrina Meunier, Marylène Moyne-Picard and Naidoo Paupiah
6. Status of Coral Reefs in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka.
Arjan Rajasuriya, Venkataraman K., Muley E.V., Hussein Zahir and Ben Cattermoul
7. Status of Southeast Asia Coral Reefs.
Loke Ming Chou, Vo Si Tuan, PhilReefs, Thamasak Yeemin, Annadel Cabanban, Suharsono and Ith Kessna
8. Status of Coral Reefs in East and North Asia: China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
Chang-Feng Dai, Chen Gang, Makoto Inaba, Kenji Iwao, Fumihito Iwase, Shinichiro Kakuma, Kenji Kajiwara, Tadashi Kimura, Yoshihiko Kotera, Yoshikatsu Nakano, Satoshi Nojima, Keiichi Nomura, Katsuki Oki, Kazuhiko Sakai, Takuro Shibuno, Hiroya Yamano and Minoru Yoshida
9. Status of Coral Reefs of Australasia: Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Hugh Sweatman, Kate Osborne, Luke Smith, Tim Grubba, Jeff Kinch, Geoff Jones and Vagi Rai
10. Status of Coral Reefs in the Southwest Pacific Region to 2002: Fiji, Nauru, New Caledonia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
Reuben Sulu, Robyn Cumming, Laurent Wantiez, Lynette Kumar, Antonio Mulipola, Malwine Lober, Samasoni Sauni, T. Poulasi and Kalo Pakoa
11. Status of Southeast and Central Pacific Coral Reefs ‘Polynesia Mana Node’: Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Niue, Tokelau, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna.
Bernard Salvat
12. Status of the Coral Reefs in Micronesia and American Samoa: US Affiliated and Freely Associated Islands in the Pacific.
Robert Richmond, Ruth Kelty, Peter Craig, Carol Emaurois, Alison Green, Charles Birkeland, Gerry Davis, Ahser Edward, Yimnang Golbuu, Jay Gutierrez, Peter Houk, Noah Idechong, James Maragos, Gustav Paulay, John Starmer, Andrew Tafileichig, Michael Trianni and Nancy Vander Velde
13. Status of Coral Reefs in the Hawaiian Archipelago.
Russell Brainard, Alan Friedlander, David Gulko, Cynthia Hunter, Ruth Kelty and James Maragos
14. Status of Coral Reefs in the U.S. Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico: Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Navassa.
Billy Causey, Joanne Delaney, Ernesto Diaz, Dick Dodge, Jorge Garcia, Jamie Higgins, Brian Keller, Ruth Kelty, Walter Jaap, Cruz Matos, George Schmahl, Caroline Rogers, Margaret Miller and Donna Turgeon
15. Status of Coral Reefs in the Northern Caribbean and Atlantic Node of the GCRMN.
Dulcie Linton, Robbie Smith, Pedro Alcolado, Carl Hanson, Peter Edwards, Reynaldo Estrada, Tatum Fisher, Raul Gomez Fernandez, Francisco Geraldes, Croy McCoy, Duncan Vaughan, Vincent Voegeli, George Warner and Jean Wiener
16. Status of Coral Reefs of Mesoamerica - Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.
Patricia Almada-Villela, Melanie McField, Philip Kramer, Patricia Richards Kramer and Ernesto Arias-Gonzalez
17. Status of Coral Reefs in the Eastern Caribbean: The OECS, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and the Netherlands Antilles.
Paul Hoetjes, Amoy Lum Kong, R. Juman, Andre Miller, Malden Miller, Kalli De Meyer and Allan Smith
18. Status of Coral Reefs in Southern Tropical America in 2000-2002: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama and Venezuela.
Jaime Garzón-Ferreira, Jorge Cortés, Aldo Croquer, Héctor Guzmán, Zelinda Leao and Alberto Rodríguez-Ramírez
19. Sponsoring Organisations, Coral Reef Programs and Monitoring Networks
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