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Posted Wed Feb 23 2011: from BBC:
Coral reefs heading for fishing and climate crisis http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1298484144
Three-quarters of the world's coral reefs are at risk due to overfishing, pollution, climate change and other factors, says a major new assessment. Reefs at Risk Revisited collates the work of hundreds of scientists and took three years to compile. The biggest threat is exploitative fishing, the researchers say, though most reefs will be feeling the impact of climate change within 20 years.... "The report is full of solutions - real world examples where people have succeeded to turn things around," said Dr Spalding. "However, if we don't learn from these successes then I think that in 50 years' time, most reefs will be gone - just banks of eroding limestone, overgrown with algae and grazed by a small variety of small fish."
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