ISRS Stop Climate Change Killing Coral Reefs

PhD candidate in Marine Biology, Victoria University of Wellington

PhD candidate, James Cook University.

The Ocean can't protect himself, we have to do it for him.

ISRS member

Stop climate change and killing coral reefs. I want to show this beautiful world to my grandchild as well

.The reefs I described in the late 70´s in southern La Orchila Isand in Venezuela are all gone now. The social pressure has to increase as to reach the wider public awareness about the importance of reefs in preserving a living Ocean Marine Ecologist at Universidad Central de Venezuela Fac. of Science

This is a critical environmental issue that requires participation on a global level as our planet is dependent upon the health of our seas, oceans, rivers and lakes.

Marine Ecologist National Park of American Samoa

We're all trying our best to reduce local threats to reefs, but if greenhouse gas emissions aren't reduced, our efforts will be wasted and we will watch more and more coral die. We could be the last generation to see healthy reefs if we don't take action.

ERT/NOAA, USA

I am working and studying within the field of fisheries science (NAFC Marine Centre and University of Aberdeen, respectively), hoping to one day apply my skills to management in tropical coral reef ecosystems. I have studied fishers' views of management in artisanal coral reef fisheries in Cambodia and the Philippines (Hamilton. 2012. Perceptions of fishermen towards marine protected areas in Cambodia and the Philippines. Bioscience Horizons, 5: 10.1093/biohorizons/hzs007)

This is really serious and I support this wholeheartedly. I am a ISRS member and co-director of Marine Conservation International. I am a marine scientist who has been working on coral reefs and coral reef fish for my career and the changes I have seen are devastating.

Rescatemos nuestros corales y arrrecifes, salvemos el planeta y vivamos dignamente Guatemala 9/11/2015

I consider shallow coral reefs to be the proverbial canary in the GHG emissions coal mine, and they deserve the highest level of effort by all capable nations to prevent their further bleaching & storm losses by climate change and CO2-induced ocean acidification. Why? They provide substantial and often critical nutritional, artisanal, cultural, storm protection, commercial, educational and aspirational or spiritual resources to hundreds of millions of people around the world. If we can't be bothered to limit GHGs to save our planet's coral reefs, why bother trying to save anything else?

Improving environmental attitudes is good, but it is even better to improve behaviors and decisions at all levels #GlobalBehaviorChange #GlobalBehaviourChange #MesDelArrecife #MonthOfTheReef Fundación ICRI Colombia Pro Coral Reefs Facebook ICRIcolombia Twitter @ArrecifesCoral @ICRIcolombia

environmentalist

#GlobalBehaviourChange #GlobalBehaviurChange for an effective Conservation of Coral Reefs and the only planet that there is to live. It is all what need to be done not

Iranian National Institute for Oceanography

Coral reefs are just one part of an ocean being severely threatened by human emissions of CO2

Protect our oceans and save the coral reefs.