We support the International Coral Reef Initiative and acknowledge the work carried out under the Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity.

Speaking on behalf of the Joint Secretariat of the International Coral Reef Initiative, he drew attention to the destructive effects of marine debris on coral reefs.

And that is the same reef that's the same reef 15 years ago that's the same reef today.

Coastal zone and marine ecosystems Coral reef protection was the most common response option reported by many small island developing States to counter the adverse effects of climate change.

And there's a beautiful reef, very complex reef, with lots of animals, including a lot of octopus.

We're crocheting a coral reef.

Coral reef in New Caledonia.

I'd never seen the reef here before.

Coral reef ecosystems are invaluable human treasures.

Very unlikely, Joe would jump on a pristine coral reef, a virgin coral reef with lots of coral, sharks, crocodiles, manatees, groupers, turtles, etc.

Why on earth are you crocheting a reef?

I'm an ecologist, mostly a coral reef ecologist.

The coral reef is the region's prime attraction.

They clean the reef everything that grows enough to be seen, they eat, and they keep the reef clean and allow the corals to replenish.

The Australian Great Barrier Reef is another success story.

Why not chisel a coral reef out of marble?

Now, see this strange, underwater, coral reef looking thing?

Publicizing fine particulate (so called PM2.5) levels was critical to mobilizing widespread Chinese public support for addressing air pollution. Similar metrics are now needed to measure other forms of natural capital destruction, such as deforestation, marine reef bleaching, wastewater discharge, and soil degradation.

Under the realization from tourist operators, fishermen, the Australian Great Barrier Reef Authority and scientists that the Great Barrier Reef is doomed under the current governance regime.

Marine environment, marine resources, marine biodiversity and the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems

Do we have evidence of this? Yes, coral reef systems.

This is our invocation in crochet of a bleached reef.

How does the reef work? Well, it's very, very simple.

Another example Nassau groupers in Belize in the Mesoamerican Reef.

Marine environment, marine resources and the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems

And the people in Chicago made a reef of their own.

Marine environment and marine resources

The water had started coming back. It was foaming over the reef.

Anyway, one tree is situated right next to a beautiful coral reef.

The reef is 1,600 kilometres long and covers about 8,000 square kilometres.

Marine environment, marine resources and sustainable development

And so now you can walk through a coral reef without getting wet.

I want to be able to go back to this reef. Thank you.

XI. Marine environment, marine resources and sustainable development

So in 2007 we had an exhibition, a small exhibition of this crochet reef.

So we had our own miniature rainforest, a private beach with a coral reef.

We thought we had a handle on all the reef fish diversity evidently not.

It's the only threat, the only influence that the reef had to deal with.

If Joe jumped in a coral reef, there are many things the alien could see.

It's like scuba diving into a coral reef, except you're going upward instead of downward.

A study by the Australian Marine Institute found that Palau s shark diving industry is worth far more than its shark fishing industry. A single reef shark that frequents major dive sites in Palau is worth roughly 179,000 annually, or 1.9 million over its lifetime the same shark would be worth about 108 dead.

Finally, oysters can attenuate and agglomerate onto each other and form these amazing natural reef structures.

Well, the good news is it's recovered and recovering fast, faster than any reef we've seen.

Fiji notes the need for the mainstreaming of sustainable coral reef management into national development strategies.

V Marine safety and protection of the marine environment from accidental pollution