Saving Coral Reefs

The world is losing tropical coral reefs to pollution, overexploitation and climate change. A quarter of all species in the oceans, a trillion-dollar economy, and the livelihoods of millions are at risk. Saving Coral Reefs proposes solutions to one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. The message is clear: Stopping climate change now means coral reefs and other sensitive ecosystems have a chance of survival. But more is needed to keep them healthy. Through Saving Coral Reefs, thirty experts propose a way: coordinated global and local intervention at a grand scale.
Saving Coral Reefs presents logically structured sequence of chapters, through which the authors take the readers on a journey of problem-solving, one layer at a time. Using examples that readers can relate to, the authors help the reader grasp and own conservation solutions that reconcile risk with reward, aspirations with compromises, and short- versus long-term goals. The book provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on problems and solutions to the coral reef crisis.