Tag: ecosystem management

New study highlights urgent need to safeguard deep reefs – one of the largest and least protected ecosystems

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As world leaders, government negotiators, scientists and conservationists gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, to agree to halt and reverse nature loss, an international team of marine scientists and conservationists have made an impassioned plea for the urgent conservation of deep reefs.

Scientists Land $3 Million NSF Grant to Empower Local Coral Reef Monitoring Efforts

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Although communities care deeply about the fate of coral reefs, they often lack the scientific tools to document changes in the local reefs on which they rely. A new project will help to empower community members already interested in coral reef health with the tools needed to document changes in these systems. Importantly, findings from the research will inform management of ecosystems.