[Coral-List] The Heroic Reef

Observatorio Pro Arrecifes Coralinos icri.colombia at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 12:46:02 EST 2017


This is a good reminder for the coral listers to join our petition:

https://secure.avaaz.org/es/petition/Gobierno_Colombia_Presidente_Juan_Manuel_Santos_Salve_y_Proteja_CoralesBahiaCartagena_Varadero_Colombia_ArrecifesCoral/

While there is a lot of concern about climate change impacting coral
reefs, this coral reef by a local threat may disappear very soon. Here
is an opportunity for all the Coral-Listers to respond to the question
of whether science still matters.

We already got a letter of support from the Society of Conservation
Biology and we sent it to the Colombian President
https://www.facebook.com/ICRI.COLOMBIA/photos/a.444087122294022.91133.317788734923862/1098362696866458/?type=3&theater

The Vice President German Vargas Lleras who will run for the next
presidential election said to the media that IF the scientific
community formally request him with evidence of the existence of this
coral reef and IF there are coral reef studies that supports that
dredging close to a coral reef may destroy it, then, He will stop the
project!! Therefore, it is still time for your action by joining to
the petition above of writing new ones directly to the Colombian
President Juan Manuel Santos.

Many thanks for being part of the salvation of this coral reef

Find Here also the link for the video #CoralesBahíaCartagena
https://twitter.com/ICRIcolombia/status/827304485978513408


2017-02-01 18:07 GMT-05:00, Buch, Kevin Len <Kevin.Buch at oregonstate.edu>:
> Greetings all,
>
> Given some of the recent threads regarding reef-related science
> communication, I thought I would share this:
>
> http://terra.oregonstate.edu/2017/01/the-heroic-reef/
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
> Kevin L. Buch
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-- 
Cordial saludo,

Nohora Galvis

Director
Coral Reefs Observatory
International Network of Volunteer Observers of the Coral Reefs

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