Construyamos juntos la Guía Colombiana de Identificación de Animales Marinos, accesible, potencialmente sumergible para identificar la vida en los arrecifes.
What you can do to help coral reefs help you
- Phanor H Montoya Maya
- Responsible Reef Use
- Behavior Change, Conservation, Coral Facts, Coral Reefs, Responsible Tourism
We won´t take long to share with you 14 wats you can do to help coral reefs help you. The fact is that we need coral reefs. Our lives heavily depend on them. But coral reefs as we know them are changing, are degrading. We need to understand how they are changing and how we can adapt to the coral reefs of the future if we are to continue enjoying their services. To buy us some time, we invite you to change some behaviors that can stop or reduce some of the causes of reef degradation. We have collected some recommendations available on the net. Start today implementing one of these actions and join us in promoting natural reef recovery and adaptation. Copied and modified from this source. Here are 14 things you can do to help coral reefs help you. Corales de Paz, together with NOAA and The Nature Conservancy, recommend: Choose sustainable seafood. Learn how to make smart seafood choices at www.fishwatch.gov. Conserve Water. The less water you use, the less runoff and wastewater that eventually find their ways back into the ocean. Volunteer. Volunteer in the local beach or reef cleanups. If you don't live near the coast, get involved in protecting your watershed. Corals are already a gift. Don't give them as presents. It takes corals decades or longer to create reef structures, so leave them on the reef. Long-lasting light bulbs are a bright idea. Energy-efficient light bulbs reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change is one of the leading threats to coral reef survival. If you dive, don't touch. Coral reefs are alive. Stirred-up sediment can smother corals. If you dive, become a Green Fins member. Green Fins is a proven conservation management approach that leads to a measurable reduction in negative environmental impacts associated with diving and snorkeling. For more
We won´t take long to share with you 14 wats you can do to help coral reefs help you. The fact is that we need
When it comes to corals, every travel counts
- Corales de Paz
- Logbook, Participatory Reef Monitoring
- Coral Reefs, Research, South Pacific, Travel logbook
As coral reef degradation becomes everyday news, Phanor Montoya of Corales de Paz travels to remote islands of the south Pacific to check on their coral reefs. While it may not be a scientific survey to assess the health of coral reefs, an on-the-side job as the marine biologist/snorkel master onboard a small ship expedition cruise from Easter Island to Papua New Guinea provided an important reef survey opportunity for Phanor Montoya-Maya of Corales de Paz. As the Director and Founder of Colombia´s pioneer of diving for coral reef conservation and large-scale coral reef restoration, he turns his travels into self-imposed assignments to address a question that is virtually common to every conservationist and diver – have we lost hope for the future of coral reefs around the world? One of the first stops on Phanor´s expedition was Ducie Atoll, one of the four islands of the Pitcairn Group. Live coral cover at the site visited was <50% and mild bleaching was observed (<25%). April 9 2019. Depth 5 - 10 m. Motu Vahaga in French Polynesia was next. Group. Live coral cover at the site visited was >75% and few to none bleaching was observed (<10%). April 14 2019. Depth 5 - 10 m. “There has been an unprecedented record of recent news on coral mortality, particularly in the last three years where breaking record seawater temperatures have caused frequent and massive coral bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef, Fiji, and other Pacific islands,” he says. “There is a scientific consensus that we have effectively lost 20% of the worldwide coral reef area known to date, that 75% is heavily threatened by climate change and human impacts, and that the 5% that is still healthy is located mostly in the Pacific. This makes an expedition to the islands
As coral reef degradation becomes everyday news, Phanor Montoya of Corales de Paz travels to remote islands of the south Pacific to check on their
This is the largest gathering of coral reef scientists in the world, the Frankfurt Motor Show or the Paris Fashion Week for coral research. I just returned from attending my first International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), held from June 19-24, 2016, in Honolulu, Hawai’i. This is the largest gathering of coral reef scientists in the world, the Frankfurt Motor Show or the Paris Fashion Week for coral research. ICRS brought together about 2,500 coral reef scientists, policymakers, and managers from 70 different nations who presented their latest research findings, case histories, and management activities and discussed the application of scientific knowledge to achieving coral reef sustainability. I was asked to present my reef restoration work in Seychelles during my time as Scientific and Technical Officer for the USAID/UNDG-GEF/Nature Seychelles Reef Rescuers Project, the largest coral reef restoration project completed to date in the Indian Ocean. Within this project, we used “coral gardening” as an active conservation measure to support coral reef conservation in the no-take MPA Cousin Island Special Reserve, Republic of Seychelles. First, we harvested coral fragments from donor colonies or corals of opportunity (i.e. naturally detached fragments) in nearby areas and reared them in mid-water rope nurseries for about 1 year. Second, we transplanted the nursery-reared corals to a degraded reef site within the MPA. A total of 24,431 corals were transplanted to 0.52 ha of degraded reef site from December 2012 to April 2014, resulting in a 700% increase in coral cover by the end of the project. When we compared the fish and benthic community structures of a degraded control site and the transplanted site before-during-after transplantation, we observed a five-fold increase in fish species richness, a three-fold increase in fish density, and a two-fold increase in coral settlement and recruitment at the transplanted site. Our
This is the largest gathering of coral reef scientists in the world, the Frankfurt Motor Show or the Paris Fashion Week for coral research. I
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