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International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN) …working to halt and reverse the decline in the world’s coral reefs ICRAN implements the ICRI Framework for Action Lauretta Burke(www.icran.org)
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Information Supports Capacity
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Information Needs for Improved Management Reef Location Reef Condition \ Monitoring Threat Analysis Management Recommendations \ Best Practices Value of Coral Reefs
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Coral Reef Mapping UNEP-WCMC ReefBase
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Coral Reef Monitoring GCRMN Reef Check
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Threat Analysis Reefs at Risk Series Southeast Asia Caribbean Local Area Implementation
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Reefs at Risk Series Global Regional National Local Raising awareness Setting priorities Planning solutions Policy change
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58% of the world’s reefs are at risk from human activitiesLowMediumHigh The Reefs at Risk Index
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CoastalDevelopment
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Pollution and Sediment from Inland Sources
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Marine-basedPollution
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Overfishing
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DestructiveFishing
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Regional Priority Setting
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Reef area estimate- 26,000 sq. km. (26% of regional total) Philippines
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Local Implementation Sabah, East Malaysia
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Reefs at Risk Caribbean LBS Pollution Coastal Development Overfishing Coral Bleaching Coral Disease
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Economic Valuation Value of Healthy Coral Reefs Economic Loss from Reef Degradation ICLARM / WRI collaboration for Caribbean
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Management \ Best Practices ICRAN Demonstration and Target Sites: identified in Caribbean, East Africa, East Asia and the South Pacific Pairing of demonstration & target sites to enhance learning and communication
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ICRAN Status Timeline: midway in Year 2 Partners: CORAL, GCRMN, ICRI Secretariat, Reef Check, SPREP, The WorldFish Centre, UNEP, UNEP RCUs, UNEP-WCMC, WRI, WWF Geography: now includes all 7 regional seas - a truly global network Demonstration and Target Sites: identified in Caribbean, East Africa, East Asia and the South Pacific
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Some ICRAN successes Closure of cement factory mining corals - a result of public awareness in Ninh Thuan Improvement of tourist & public awareness facilities - Malindi Watamu Reserve First ICRAN Regional ‘Experience Sharing’ Workshop for demonstration & target sites Socio-economic assessment & monitoring - Sian Ka‘an Biosphere Reserve
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