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	News and Calendar :: Maui Ocean Center :: The Hawaiian Aquarium
		Coral World marine parks - two of which include the world's longest underwater acrylic tunnels - are truly in a class of their own.
		Coral World International, Ltd., a corporation registered in the Isle of Guernsey, was formed in 1988 as the parent company of its operating subsidiaries.
		Coral World currently has its own plans to open several new and exciting parks, all of which are presently in varying stages of development.
	www.mauioceancenter.com /NewsandCalendar/PressKit/CoralWorld.html (681 words)

	Coral Reefs: Rainforests of the Sea script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Coral reefs are spectacular to behold, lush gardens in the sea, supporting a staggering diversity of marine life in a densely packed, thriving marine metropolis.
		Coral reefs are very sensitive to changes in their environment because of the specialized conditions required for them to thrive: clear, warm, sunlit shallow water.
		Coral reefs are among nature's greatest spectacles, producing some of the finest examples of natural architecture in the world.
	www.oceanicresearch.org /crrainspt.html (2234 words)

	Coral World International :: Maui Ocean Center :: The Hawaiian Aquarium
		Born of a passion for the sea and the wonders of tropical fish and coral reefs, the Coral World marine parks are the labor of love.
		Coral World marine parks are truly in a class all of their own.
		The professionals of Coral World are at home in seas around the world, from the Indian and Pacific Oceans to the Red and Caribbean Seas, a network of diversified expertise unmatched by anyone else in this field.
	www.mauioceancenter.com /Coral_World_International.html (248 words)

	June 8 is World Oceans Day
		The world's oceans cover more than 70% of our planet's surface and the rich web of life they support is the result of hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
		Sea-level rise threatens whole nations on the low-lying coral atolls of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and is already flooding valuable wetlands in America's Chesapeake Bay and Louisiana's Mississipi Delta.
		Coral reefs are home to an extraordinarily rich array of marine life and provide vital resources to the tourism and fishing industries.
	www.gdrc.org /oceans/oceans-day.html (1606 words)

	AIMS - Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2000, Summary
		Coral reefs are ideal models for management and conservation as they are often discrete with water barriers separating them from the sources of land-based pollution and exploitation.
		The world’s largest areas of coral reefs with the highest biodiversity are probably under the greatest threats from human activities, including an explosive growth in damaging fishing activities: blast fishing and the use of cyanide for the live reef fish trade.
		Coral bleaching caused major losses of corals in southern Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam and parts of the Philippines and Indonesia, with many losses of 30- 60%, and some as high as 80-90% with localised extinctions of prominent corals.
	www.aims.gov.au /pages/research/coral-bleaching/scr2000/scr-00gcrmn-report.html (2783 words)

	CORAL REEF DESTRUCTION AND CONSERVATION - Coral Reefs - Ocean World
		In the Philippines, where coral reef destruction is the worst, over 70% have been destroyed and only 5% can be said to be in good condition.
		The algae are what give coral its color, so without the algae the coral has no color and the white of the limestone shell shines through the transparent coral bodies.
		In the same way, oceanographers can look at the rings in a slice of coral and see how old the coral is and which years were good years and which were not.
	oceanworld.tamu.edu /students/coral/coral5.htm (1094 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Coral-reef health continues to plummet, study says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		WASHINGTON — Only about 30 percent of the world's coral reefs are healthy, down from 41 percent two years ago, according to a study released yesterday that lists global warming as the top threat.
		The study found as many as one-fifth of the world's coral reefs have been destroyed.
		Coral reefs are among the oldest and most diverse forms of life.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002111217_reefs07.html (516 words)

	Life on the Reef: The Amazing World of Coral Fishes
		Coral reefs are limestone structures formed by the skeletons of tiny animals that are similar to sea anemones.
		Reef-building corals live in colonies that vary immensely in growth form but have one feature in common: they all contain zooxanthellae--symbiotic algae that supply coral with essential nutrients and colour--in their tissues.
		A coral reef is a community of many species: corals, other animals and plants.
	www.fathom.com /course/21701712/session1.html (920 words)

	Coral Reef
		Coral Reefs are the "Rainforests" of the ocean.
		Coral Reefs are home to over 25 percent of all marine life and are among the world's most fragile and endangered ecosystems.
		Fringing reefs are coral reefs that grow in shallow waters and border the coast closely or are separated from it by a narrow stretch of water.
	www.solcomhouse.com /coralreef.htm (1258 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - World's marine life is getting sicker
		Coral bleaching caused by "malaria of the oceans"
		For years, apparent increases in illness among marine creatures, from whales to coral, have left marine scientists with the uneasy suspicion that the seas are increasingly plagued by disease.
		For example, when the urchins in the Caribbean died, corals were overwhelmed by the algae the urchins used to eat.
	www.newscientist.com /news/news.jsp?id=ns99994897 (708 words)

	Coral Reef Animal Printouts - EnchantedLearning.com
		Coral reefs are warm, clear, shallow ocean habitats that are rich in life.
		There are coral reefs off the eastern coast of Africa, off the southern coast of India, in the Red Sea, and off the coasts of northeast and northwest Australia and on to Polynesia.
		Major threats to coral reefs are water pollution (from sewage and agricultural runoff), dredging off the coast, careless collecting of coral specimens, and sedimentation (when silt or sand from construction or mining projects muddies the waters of a reef and kills coral, which needs light to live).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /biomes/coralreef/coralreef.shtml (1038 words)

	Coral World Ocean Park, St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands, Directions
		Coral World is located on Coki Point, a peninsula on the northeast shore of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
		By Boat: Coral World is located on Coki Point, a peninsula on the northeast end of St. Thomas.
		You may anchor in Water Bay and dingy to the Coral World dock which is on the right as you enter the bay.
	www.coralworldvi.com /directions.shtml (287 words)

	EPA > Oceans, Coasts, and Estuaries > Habitat Protection > Coral Reefs
		This paper continues the review of coral reef attributes and presents a research strategy for creating coral reef indexes of biotic integrity (IBI's) that, once developed, can be used in coral reef biocriteria programs around the world.
		President Clinton directed the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior to develop a plan to permanently protect the coral reefs of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, which represent nearly 70 percent of the coral reefs in U.S. waters.
		Coral bleaching can be a sign that the coral is being stressed by a number of factors, including pollution, sedimentation, changes in salinity, and increases in water temperature.
	www.epa.gov /owow/oceans/coral (728 words)

	World Atlas of Coral Reefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The publication of the World Atlas of Coral Reefs marked an important step towards increasing knowledge and awareness of the significance of coral reefs world-wide and the threats they face.
		The World Atlas of Coral Reefs provides new global estimates for coral reefs world-wide and, for the first time, presents reef area estimates for individual countries supported by detailed maps and statistics for all the world's coral reef nations.
		The World Atlas of Coral Reefs was launched on September 11th 2001.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /marine/coralatlas (126 words)

	Forecasts Main Page
		Coral reef loss may rival that of rain forests.
		Hurricanes, disease, climate change, pollution, and overfishing are decimating the coral life on many of the world's reef ecosystems.
		The loss of 80% of Caribbean coral reef cover in the past three decades exceeds the rate of tropical forest loss.
	www.wfs.org /forecasts.htm (729 words)

	Warmer World Will Be A Sicker World, Say Scientists
		Global warming and changing climatic conditions are triggering disease epidemics in wildlife around the world, reports a renowned team of ecologists and epidemiologists in the Friday June 21st issue of Science.
		Study Says Bleaching Could Be A Hidden Strength For Corals (June 27, 2001) -- The global phenomenon of bleaching, in which reef-building corals lose their colorful algae and become white during times of stress, may actually allow some corals to adapt to global warming and...
		Corals: Corals are the canary in the coalmine for global warming.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2002/06/020621081840.htm (1639 words)

	World Wildlife Fund
		The Status of Coral Reefs of the World 2004 will be released at a press briefing at the headquarters of World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C. This bi-annual survey of the health of the world's coral reefs identifies which reefs are recovering and which are degrading.
		At the press briefing, scientists will provide the latest numbers on coral reefs, identifying the reefs with the greatest problems and those that have recovered the most since the 1998 bleaching event when unusually warm water effectively destroyed 16 percent of the world's coral reefs.
		Known in the United States as World Wildlife Fund and recognized worldwide by its panda logo, WWF leads international efforts to protect endangered species and their habitats and to conserve the diversity of life on Earth.
	www.commondreams.org /news2004/1130-12.htm (355 words)

	world encyclopedia
		One of the most potent and fascinating weapons of the twentieth century, the tank has evolved over ninety years of development.
		Cultures of the World: Selections from the 10 Volume Encyclopedia of World Cultures
		World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World
	www.school-n-office-supplies.com /mkw/world_encyclopedia.html (185 words)

	ReefBase: Homepage: - A Global Information System On Coral Reefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		ReefBase is the world's premier online information system on coral reefs, and provides information services to coral reef professionals involved in management, research, monitoring, conservation and education.
		"Coral reefs of Japan" by the Ministry of the Environment and The Japanese Coral Reef Society (Editors) was released last year during ICRS in Okinawa and has been entered into the ReefBase literature database, and is available as downloadable PDF.
		Status of coral reefs of the world: 2004.
	www.reefbase.org (789 words)

	AIMS - 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.
		Status of Coral Reefs in the Southwest Pacific Region to 2002: Fiji, Nauru, New Caledonia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
		Status of Coral Reefs in the Eastern Caribbean: The OECS, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and the Netherlands Antilles.
	www.aims.gov.au /pages/research/coral-bleaching/scr2002/scr-00.html (897 words)

	The Coral Reef Alliance
		CORAL has partnered with several local organizations in Maui (Hawaii) and held a workshop series entitled "Coral Reefs and Sustainable Marine Recreation," during the month of May 2005.
		Karange is not the only coral reef along the 150-km long Tanga coast, to have been subjected to illegal dynamite fishing.
		Coral reef blasts are frequent along the coast with the most targeted areas being off Kigombe, Pangani, Kwale and Tanga city.
	www.coralreefalliance.org (1441 words)

	In The News - USVI Marine Park Continues Access Upgrades
		The Caribbean Reef Encounter is one of the world's largest living man made coral reefs.
		Coral World also has accessible bathrooms, drinking fountains, parking and offers barrier-free access to the gift shop and snack bar.
		Coral World is located at Coki Point on the island of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands.
	www.emerginghorizons.com /topical/coralWorld.html (469 words)

	One World Journeys \| Expeditions
		Join One World Journeys, and wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen and writer Cara Blessley Lowe, as we learn about threats to cougars and what needs to be done to insure that man and cat live in harmony together.
		Palmyra Atoll, a tiny coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is the keeper of answers to big questions about the health of our coral reefs and oceans.
		Travel with the One World Journeys team by foot, four wheel drive, horseback, and helicopter to discover how Georgians are working to preserve their natural heritage and cultural heritage.
	www.oneworldjourneys.com /expeditions (599 words)

	World Atlas of Coral Reefs (Spalding, Ravilious, Green)
		Chapter one surveys the geology, geography, and biology of coral reefs, describing patterns in their diversity and some of the more prominent organisms found on them.
		The least interesting material, in contrast, is a table for each country listing all the protected reef areas, with their status, size, and the date they were created.
		Although it should attract substantial numbers of general readers, the primary audience for the World Atlas of Coral Reefs will be marine biologists, conservationists, and divers.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Coral_Reefs.html (413 words)

	Invertebrate Zoology - The World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It lives in intertidal coral rubble, in coarse sediments in Syringodium and Thalassia seagrass beds, and in deeper waters on brown alga Turbinaria, on Madracis sp.
		coral, on the gills of rays Aetobatus narinari and Dasyatis, and on squirrel fish.
		is a shallow-water sphaeromatid isopod which inhabits intertidal coral rubble and algae.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /iz/isopod (124 words)

	ACTION ATLAS: Coral Reefs
		The biologists have seen the future, and their message could not be clearer: Living coral reefs are the foundation of marine life, and thus a crucial support for human life, yet all over the world they are dead or dying because people are destroying them—killing them—at a catastrophic rate.
		Already 10 percent are lost, and scientists say 70 percent of all corals on the planet will be destroyed in 20 to 40 years unless people stop doing what they're doing—pollution, sewage, erosion, cyanide fishing, clumsy tourism—and get serious about saving the coral reefs now.
		And it was a passel of marine scientists, alarmed by their findings and frustrated with government inaction, who launched last year's International Year of the Reef, a global research and education program to spur coral conservation efforts and reverse the trend of destruction.
	www.motherjones.com /coral_reef (586 words)

	CBBC Newsround \| World \| Coral reefs 'at risk of collapse'
		The world's coral reefs could begin to collapse in 30 years' time because of pollution, scientists have warned.
		The erosion eating away at the reefs is on course to overtake the rate at which the coral can produce new life.
		Coral brings in lots of tourists, attracts fish and protects islands against the waves.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4220000/newsid_4229200/4229271.stm (148 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Coral World is hoping its new Sea Trek will update Jules Verne for the St. Thomas attraction, a la "20,000 Tourists Under the Sea."
		Once beneath the surface, the group is led by a marine guide along a natural path on the sea floor among corals teeming with life, color and rhythm.
		At Coral World, a diver with a communication link to the guide accompanies the group.
	www.onepaper.com /stthomasvi/?v=d&i=&s=Visitor%27s+Center%3AAttractions&p=31600&f=p (278 words)

	CORDIO - Coral Reef Degradation in the Indian Ocean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Coral bleaching and mortality: Assessment of the extent of damage, socio-economic effects, mitigation and recovery.
		CORDIO was created in 1999 to assess the widespread degradation of the coral reefs throughout the region.
		Gradually much of the research is focusing on mitigation of damage to reefs and on alternative livelihoods for people dependant on reefs that are being degraded due to climate change and other stress factors.
	www.cordio.org (161 words)

	World Atlas of Coral Reefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Coral reefs are one of the most biologically diverse habitats in the world, host to an extraordinary variety of marine plants and animals.
		Yet coral reefs around the world are rapidly being degraded by a number of human activities, such as overfishing, coastal development, and the introduction of sewage, fertilizer, and sediment.
		World Atlas of Coral Reefs contains eighty-four full-page newly researched and drawn color maps, together with more than two hundred color photos illustrating reefs, reef animals, and images taken from space by NASA astronauts during the 2000 and 2001 space shuttle flights.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9635.html (1036 words)

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