tags: coral reef, marine life, endangered species, Image of the Day
Seventeen countries have marked 2008 as the International Year of the Reef, a worldwide campaign to raise awareness about the importance of coral reefs and to motivate action to protect them.
Image: S. Zumbrunn, Conservation International. [larger size].
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Deep coral biologists like myself are continually looking to shallow reefs for applicable paradigms.
For Darwin's Birthday Weekend, a reposting of my review of David Dobb's Reef Madness:
Here's a video from the Guardian on the current status of the reef: