This slideshow highlights the first-ever multinational Eco-Audit of the Mesoamerican Reef.
The Eco-Audit evaluates efforts to protect and sustainably manage the region’s coral reefs, celebrates management success stories, and documents the extent to which recommended management actions have been implemented in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
Visit wri.org/reefs to learn more about the World Resources Institute’s collaboration with the Healthy Reef Initiative to develop and implement the Eco-Audit of the Mesoamerican Reef.
On Wednesday, February 23, 2011, WRI and more than 25 partners launched Reefs at Risk Revisited, a comprehensive analysis of the threats to coral reefs. Find out more at http://bit.ly/hSWmhU
'Presentation Kettunen & ten Brink at Iddri May 07 on the Values of Biodiversity Related Ecosystem Services. Enhancing the integration of biodiversity into policy and decision-making
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Learn more at https://www.wri.org/events/2019/10/ocean-solution-climate-change-5-opportunities-action
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Our Goal: Lasting human well-being by Conservation International, Ricky Nunez. Presentation for Seminar on Environmental Reporting conducted at Hotel Alejandro, Tacloban City.
On Wednesday, February 23, 2011, WRI and more than 25 partners launched Reefs at Risk Revisited, a comprehensive analysis of the threats to coral reefs. Find out more at http://bit.ly/hSWmhU
'Presentation Kettunen & ten Brink at Iddri May 07 on the Values of Biodiversity Related Ecosystem Services. Enhancing the integration of biodiversity into policy and decision-making
Experts and policymakers explore how ocean-based activities can contribute to efforts to limit emissions that contribute to global temperature increase.
Learn more at https://www.wri.org/events/2019/10/ocean-solution-climate-change-5-opportunities-action
At the Little Rann of Kutch, salt production generates much higher economic value (Rs 694 million) than tourism (Rs 276 million) or biodiversity (Rs 136 million) but it’s also more damaging to the ecology. Tourism will help conserve biodiversity because most tourists come for the birds but they have less economic values and hence lesser attention.
Our Goal: Lasting human well-being by Conservation International, Ricky Nunez. Presentation for Seminar on Environmental Reporting conducted at Hotel Alejandro, Tacloban City.
A look at how nature provides us with services and how valuing these services is important to well-being. Slideshow from Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, UNEP
In 2015, The Rockefeller Foundation collaborated with several partners to begin developing incentive-based mechanisms to address competition for freshwater, and to bring human water use back in balance with the water needs of freshwater ecosystems in order to build long-term resilience. The early solutions that emerged, and the wider lessons from the group’s work, are captured in this report.
Ecosystem services are the benefits that people obtain from ecosystems. They are indispensable to the well-being of all living organisms, everywhere in the world. They include provisioning, regulating, and cultural services that directly affect people, and supporting services needed to maintain the other services (Anon., 2005). From the availability of adequate food and water, to disease regulation of vectors, pests, and pathogens, human well-being depends on these services and conditions from the natural environment. Ecosystem services depend on ecosystem conditions, and if these are impacted via pressures, consequently ecosystem services will be as well (Daily G, 1997). Human use of all ecosystem services is growing rapidly. Approximately 60% of the ecosystem services (including 70% of regulating and cultural services) are being degraded or used unsustainably. Certain changes place the sustained delivery of ecosystem services at risk. Human activity is impairing and destroying ecosystem services. Services by the ecosystem are facing some serious threats from urbanization, climate change and introduction of invasive species and pathogens which have come into existence through human activities (Anon., 1997). Ecosystem evaluation is a tool used in determining the impact of human activities on an environmental system, by assigning an economic value to an ecosystem or its ecosystem services. Ecosystem values are measures of how important ecosystem services are to people – what they are worth. Economists classify ecosystem values into several types. The two main categories are use values and non-use, or passive use values. Whereas use values are based on actual use of the environment, non-use values are values that are not associated with actual use, or even an option to use, an ecosystem or its services (Brookshire, et al.,1983). There are several methods of valuation of environmental assets, goods and amenities, services and functions like market price method, productivity method, hedonic pricing method, travel cost method and contingent valuation method.
Scanning the landscape by Ryan Rosauro for Mindanao Leg of Philippine Press Institute Seminar on Environmental Reporting at Almont Inland Hotel, Butuan City
Melissa Leach: Planetary boundaries, politics and pathways. Plenary dialogue,...STEPS Centre
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Putting premium on the value of ecosystems services: Our environmental advocacy experience in Davao city by Chinkie Pelino-Golle, Acting Executive Director Interface Development Interventions, Incorporated www.idisphil.org
Abstract: Using Social Media as a Tool to track the Social Impact of plastic ...MACE Lab
Kaveera SIngh, Surina Singh, Gan Moodley, Deborah Robertson-Andersson .Presented at the ninth Scientific Symposium of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) 2015.
Kaveera Singh, Surina Singh, Gan Moodley, Deborah Robertson-Andersson. Presented at the ninth Scientific Symposium of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science (WIOMSA) 2015.
Mangrove ecosystem services in the Mekong Delta: drivers and a rapid assessmentCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Dr. Le Thanh Loan, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, on 10 November 2020 at "International workshop: Enhancing wetland management and sustainable development"
The WRI report, "Can The U.S. Get There From Here?" examines pathways for United States greenhouse gas reductions that can be taken at the federal and state levels using existing authorities.
Based on World Resources Report, "Ecosystem Services: A Guide for Decision Makers" (http://www.wri.org/publication/ecosystem-services-a-guide-for-decision-makers)
A look at how nature provides us with services and how valuing these services is important to well-being. Slideshow from Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, UNEP
In 2015, The Rockefeller Foundation collaborated with several partners to begin developing incentive-based mechanisms to address competition for freshwater, and to bring human water use back in balance with the water needs of freshwater ecosystems in order to build long-term resilience. The early solutions that emerged, and the wider lessons from the group’s work, are captured in this report.
Ecosystem services are the benefits that people obtain from ecosystems. They are indispensable to the well-being of all living organisms, everywhere in the world. They include provisioning, regulating, and cultural services that directly affect people, and supporting services needed to maintain the other services (Anon., 2005). From the availability of adequate food and water, to disease regulation of vectors, pests, and pathogens, human well-being depends on these services and conditions from the natural environment. Ecosystem services depend on ecosystem conditions, and if these are impacted via pressures, consequently ecosystem services will be as well (Daily G, 1997). Human use of all ecosystem services is growing rapidly. Approximately 60% of the ecosystem services (including 70% of regulating and cultural services) are being degraded or used unsustainably. Certain changes place the sustained delivery of ecosystem services at risk. Human activity is impairing and destroying ecosystem services. Services by the ecosystem are facing some serious threats from urbanization, climate change and introduction of invasive species and pathogens which have come into existence through human activities (Anon., 1997). Ecosystem evaluation is a tool used in determining the impact of human activities on an environmental system, by assigning an economic value to an ecosystem or its ecosystem services. Ecosystem values are measures of how important ecosystem services are to people – what they are worth. Economists classify ecosystem values into several types. The two main categories are use values and non-use, or passive use values. Whereas use values are based on actual use of the environment, non-use values are values that are not associated with actual use, or even an option to use, an ecosystem or its services (Brookshire, et al.,1983). There are several methods of valuation of environmental assets, goods and amenities, services and functions like market price method, productivity method, hedonic pricing method, travel cost method and contingent valuation method.
Scanning the landscape by Ryan Rosauro for Mindanao Leg of Philippine Press Institute Seminar on Environmental Reporting at Almont Inland Hotel, Butuan City
Melissa Leach: Planetary boundaries, politics and pathways. Plenary dialogue,...STEPS Centre
Professor Melissa Leach, IDS Director and former STEPS Centre Director, gave this presentation as part of a Plenary Dialogue with Johan Rockstrom of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at the Resilience 2014 conference in Montpellier, France on 7 May 2014. Find out more: http://steps-centre.org/
Putting premium on the value of ecosystems services: Our environmental advocacy experience in Davao city by Chinkie Pelino-Golle, Acting Executive Director Interface Development Interventions, Incorporated www.idisphil.org
Abstract: Using Social Media as a Tool to track the Social Impact of plastic ...MACE Lab
Kaveera SIngh, Surina Singh, Gan Moodley, Deborah Robertson-Andersson .Presented at the ninth Scientific Symposium of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) 2015.
Kaveera Singh, Surina Singh, Gan Moodley, Deborah Robertson-Andersson. Presented at the ninth Scientific Symposium of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science (WIOMSA) 2015.
Mangrove ecosystem services in the Mekong Delta: drivers and a rapid assessmentCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Dr. Le Thanh Loan, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, on 10 November 2020 at "International workshop: Enhancing wetland management and sustainable development"
The WRI report, "Can The U.S. Get There From Here?" examines pathways for United States greenhouse gas reductions that can be taken at the federal and state levels using existing authorities.
Based on World Resources Report, "Ecosystem Services: A Guide for Decision Makers" (http://www.wri.org/publication/ecosystem-services-a-guide-for-decision-makers)
What stories will impact people and the planet in 2013?
Dr. Andrew Steer, President & CEO, presents his views for where the world is headed in international development, climate change, energy, sustainable business, natural resources, and more.
What will be the big news stories? Who will be the change makers? And, why does it all matter?
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, STORIES TO WATCH 2013 takes place on 15 January 2013 and welcomes media representatives, policymakers, business leaders, and consultants who want to know what trends will shape the world in the coming year.
Find out more at http://www.wri.org/event/2013/01/stories-watch-2013
This webinar – co-hosted by WRI and CDP – takes a close look at how companies can use Aqueduct and respond to the 2013 CDP Water Questionnaire. The webinar explains step by step the Aqueduct tool functionalities and data input requirements, as well as an overview of how to interpret the results and respond to the CDP Water Disclosure 2013 Information Request. For more information visit http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/webinar-aqueduct-corporate-water-disclosure
An examination of the role of four improved land and water management practices and the effect they could have on smallholder crop yields and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. We then provide a series of recommendations for how to scale up these practices.
The Turkana area of Kenya, one of the poorest in Africa, is undergoing major changes, primarily linked to the discovery of oil in the region. These maps start to uncover some of the potential impacts of these changes on people and the environment.
In October 2011, WRI launched a five-year global initiative to advance the progress of building environmentally sustainable and livable cities in China, India, and Brazil. We intend to develop low-carbon city models and pathways for environmentally sustainable urbanization, by partnering with four urban centers to increase energy efficiency, curb greenhouse gas emissions, and improve water quality, urban mobility and land use.
This presentation is for my school assessment on global environments. I chose coral reefs. My project explains coral reefs and the geographical processes involved with it as well.
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Introduction to the ecosystem approach as a framework for management of ecosy...Iwl Pcu
7th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Barbados Presentation on ecosystem approach as a framework for management of ecosystem use by Rhodes University
Introduction to the ecosystem approach as a framework for management of ecosy...Iwl Pcu
7th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Barbados Presentation on ecosystem approach as a framework for management of ecosystem use by Rhodes University
Introduction to the ecosystem approach as a framework for management of ecosy...Iwl Pcu
7th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Barbados Presentation on ecosystem approach as a framework for management of ecosystem use by Rhodes University
Coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, delta systems, and coral reefs are increasingly at risk due in large part to
settlement and development along rapidly urbanizing coasts. The resulting degradation of these ecosystems,
especially the degradation of natural infrastructure, increasingly exposes coastal cities and their inhabitants to
more frequent and severe natural hazards and disproportionately impacts poor populations who often rely on these ecosystems for livelihoods, food, and other essential benefits.
Intact Oceans and Their Benefits, by Edward Lohnes, Conservation InternationalWILD Foundation
"Intact Oceans and their Benefits" is posted by permission of Edward Lohnes and Conservation International to inform and inspire action for the conservation of marine wilderness.
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Popular Unsustainable and Environmentally Concerning Aquaculture Methodology
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Abstract
Aquaculture will continue to grow as the expected fish demand will increase inevitably with the
rising population. The reliance on aquaculture systems comes with responsibility of owners and
respective stakeholders to assure that the systems are using sustainable and environmentally
friendly mechanisms. This report discusses various ways to create a more sustainable and
environmentally friendly aquaculture system in terms of fishmeal alternatives, built-structure
types, and antibiotics and chemical usage to give recommendations to fish farm owners. The
report also touches on ethical practices in owning an aquaculture system. The most sustainable
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method was found to be feed using microalgae and insects, structure type of pen and cage, and
phage therapy as an antibiotic treatment replacement.
1.0 Introduction: Background of Aquaculture Systems
1.1 Current Unsustainable Aquaculture Methodology
With the world’s increasing in population, fish and seafood in general has become widely relied
on as a source of protein, and this reliance will continue and grow. In 2030, it is expected that
150 to 160 million tons of fish will be consumed (“Global and regional food”, n.d.). Besides
fishing, aquaculture is a major method in which we obtain fish, and will continue to be to meet
the world demand of fish. Aquaculture is diverse in its methods, but the main idea is to create a
farm in a body of water to efficiently produce copious amounts of seafood like fish (freshwater
and saltwater), and shellfish. Many factors go into an aquaculture system to assure its success,
such as the feed type, the farm location, and the farm structure. Many may assume that
aquaculture would decrease pressure on fisheries because fish are being separately farmed for the
purpose of eating, however this is not the case. Currently “Around 85% of global fish stocks are
over-exploited, depleted, fully exploited or in recovery from exploitation” (Vince, 2012). This is
greatly concerning as it is known that the global population is only increasing, and therefore the
global demand for fish consumption will only increase as well..
WRI’s brand new “Food Service Playbook for Promoting Sustainable Food Choices” gives food service operators the very latest strategies for creating dining environments that empower consumers to choose sustainable, plant-rich dishes. This research builds off our first guide for food service, now with industry experience and insights from nearly 350 academic trials.
This webinar showcased how efforts in India and sub-Saharan Africa are harnessing renewable energy, in particular solar power, to ensure health facilities have access to clean and reliable electricity. The session covered insights from the recently released report, “A Spoonful of Solar to Help the Medicine Go Down: Exploring Synergies Between Health Care and Energy,” as well as from WRI Africa’s Productive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) initiative.
DIST-ALERT detects disturbances to any kind of vegetation cover, including forests, grasses, shrubs and even crops, occurring anywhere on Earth in near real-time.
OPERA’s first-of-its-kind vegetation disturbance monitoring product (DIST-ALERT) detects disturbances to any kind of vegetation cover, including forests, grasses, shrubs and even crops, occurring anywhere on Earth in near real-time.
Protecting forests is critical, but meeting biodiversity, climate and sustainable development targets means preventing the loss of other valuable natural ecosystems as well.
In this webinar, local governments and other stakeholders will learn about advanced transmission solutions, including grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) and high-performance conductors. The webinar will cover the mechanics and purpose of these technologies and feature expertise from regulators and subject matter experts. We will also discuss transmission capacity expansion needs, incentives, and how local governments can become involved in transmission-related conversations.
Supercharged by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S. is rapidly transitioning to electric vehicles. But access to EV charging remains a key challenge, especially within underserved communities. Cities, towns and counties are at the frontlines of this transition and are actively planning for and deploying charging infrastructure across their communities.
This webinar will share experiences and lessons learned from recent peer-learning cohorts run by WRI in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as part of the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Energy to Communities program.
This webinar will help local government staff and other community stakeholders—such as community-based and environmental justice organizations—better understand FERC and the available pathways for these stakeholders to engage with the agency. Featured speakers will cover the history of FERC, how it functions, and its role in affecting the future of the electricity sector. The webinar will also discuss why community voices are valuable at FERC and how these voices can have the greatest impact.
The challenge for 2024 is to understand how we can move those in power to make the necessary shifts toward a net zero, climate-resilient future.
In WRI’s Stories to Watch 2024, WRI’s President & CEO, Ani Dasgupta, presents four key stories that help explain how we can make these shifts. Each story hinges on whether leaders use their power to make life better for people, nature, and the climate — and the factors that influence them.
Our four stories look at the political barriers to effective climate action, how to fix the world’s dysfunctional food system, the missing link in the clean energy revolution, and climate change’s ‘silent killer’.
Learn more: https://www.wri.org/events/2024/1/stories-watch-2024
Join World Resources Institute on December 13 for a webinar that explores grid reliability in the United States and how to help state decisionmakers, regulators, RTOs, and other key stakeholders understand what is needed in the immediate and long-term to build a more reliable grid.
This webinar unpacks findings from the Traceability and Transparency in Supply Chains report, explore priority action areas for closing key gaps, and showcase collaborative approaches to advancing traceability and transparency.
The webinar will introduce a new Roadmap resource for local governments to maximize IRA incentives for clean energy projects and bring economic, health and social benefits to their communities.
In a series of interviews and a literature review, WRI’s U.S. Energy team focused on efforts to achieve full, mature fleet electrification in the long term, which brings in various other considerations, such as grid and utility considerations.
This webinar will go over the key takeaways from this endeavor and will feature expert speakers who will share their experiences and insights around fleet electrification.
This WRI webinar discussed how cities can take advantage of the new economic landscape for clean energy spurred by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This is a critical moment for local governments to understand the clean energy provisions in the IRA, how they can be leveraged to significantly advance the clean energy transition at the local level, and how cities can mobilize to advance their clean energy goals given these new opportunities.
This webinar explored considerations and actions cities can take to shape a more equitable energy future for their communities. It featured WRI experts and panelists from leading cities who are actively integrating elective pay and clean energy tax credits introduced in the IRA into their clean energy procurements and community programs.
This pitch deck provides local government staff with a modifiable template for proposing actions related to 24/7 CFE procurement to decision makers. The slides include instructions and links to resources to give additional context for potential actions.
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In this webinar, panelists explored the shared importance of vehicle electrification and shifts to active mobility, the role of various actors in catalyzing new solutions for aviation and maritime shipping, the status of tipping points in driving exponential progress, and how a systems approach can help us reimagine transport as we know it.
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
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1. 2011 Eco-Audit of the
Mesoamerican Reef
Countries
Photo: Rebecca Weeks
2. This slideshow highlights the first-ever multinational
Eco-Audit of the Mesoamerican Reef.
The Eco-Audit evaluates efforts to protect and sustainably
manage the region’s coral reefs; celebrates management
success stories; and documents the extent to which
recommended management actions have been implemented
in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
Visit wri.org/reefs to learn more about the World Resources
Institute’s collaboration with the Healthy Reef Initiative to
develop and implement the Eco-Audit of the Mesoamerican
Reef.
3. Mesoamerican Reefs Ecoregion
The Mesoamerican Reef
is the largest coral reef in
the Western Hemisphere.
It stretches 1,000
kilometers (over 600
miles) from Mexico to
Honduras.
Credit: Map courtesy of
Healthy Reefs for Healthy
People
4. Value of the Mesoamerican Reef
The Mesoamerican Reef provides a
diverse array of goods and services
to the people of
Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and
Mexico including shoreline
protection, critical habitat for
fish, food, and more.
Local economies are highly
dependent on marine
resources, especially from tourism
and fishing industries. In Belize
alone, the reef was estimated to
contribute approximately US $395 -
$559 million in goods and services
each year.
Credit: Jason Valdez, Belize
5. Threats to the Mesoamerican Reef
Unfortunately, the health of the reef
is declining. This is the result of
poor ecosystem management and
threats including coastal
development, overfishing, pollution,
and climate change.
Between 2008 and 2010, 62 percent
of monitored reef sites decreased in
health, and reef declines outpaced
improvements by a ratio of five to
one.[i]
[i]
Healthy Reefs for Healthy People.
2010. Report Card for the
Mesoamerican Reef: An Evaluation
of Ecosystem Health.
Credit: Lawrence Alex Wu
6. What is an Eco-audit?
An Eco-Audit is a systematic
evaluation of how well
governments, NGOs, and the
private sector implement
recommended reef management
actions.
The Mesoamerican reef Eco-
Audit includes 22 indicators
across 7 themes, which are
explored in the following slides.
Credit: Zach Ostroff/Marine
Photobank
7. Marine Protected Areas
Marine Protected Areas are one
of the most widely used
management tools in reef
conservation. Protected areas help
to foster reef resilience, allowing
coral reefs to recover more
quickly from a variety of
threats, including diseases and
coral bleaching.
The Eco-Audit explores the
spatial extent of protected areas
and the degree of management
and enforcement capacity.
Credit: Krishna Desai
8. Ecosystem-based fisheries management
Overfishing and destructive
fishing are the most widespread
threats to coral reefs. The
continued collapse of global
fisheries will have far-reaching
economic and ecological
consequences.
The Eco-Audit measures the
standardization of fishing
regulations for size limits and
closed seasons, particularly in
efforts to protect grouper
spawning sites and parrotfish.
Credit: Julie Stockbridge, Belize
9. Coastal Zone Management
Coastal development, including
human settlements, industry,
aquaculture, or infrastructure, can
dramatically alter nearshore
ecosystems.
The Eco-Audit measures extent of
coastal zone management plans in
the reef countries plans or steps
toward developing such plans.
Credit: R. Ritson-Williams,
Smithsonian Institute
10. Sanitation and sewage treatment
The high level of nutrients present
in sewage can result in blooms of
plankton that block light and
encourage the growth of algae
that compete for space on the reef.
The Eco-Audit explores the extent
to which regional standards for
wastewater management have
been developed and applied to the
construction of new sewage
treatment infrastructure.
Credit: Steve Spring/Marine
Photobank
11. Research, education and awareness
The number of local leaders that
understand reef ecosystems and
their value has greatly increased
in recent years. This is largely due
to the efforts of researchers to
share their work and make the
case for healthy reefs.
The Eco-Audit measures the
efforts of researchers and
managers to standardize
monitoring methods and share the
information in a publicly
accessible and up-to-date
database.
Credit: Lorenzo Álvarez Filip
12. Sustainability in the private sector
Marine recreation providers
depend on healthy marine
ecosystems, especially reefs.
Partnerships between the private
sector and the public can facilitate
information exchange, training in
best practices, and collaborative
efforts to find solutions to issues
of shared concern.
The Eco-Audit measures the
degree of participation of marine
recreation providers in programs
that promote sustainability.
Credit: Colin Zylka, Honduras
13. Global issues
A global approach to protect coral
reef ecosystems is essential. We
must work internationally to share
knowledge, experience and ideas
to achieve solutions to global-
scale threats such as climate
change.
To accomplish this, the Eco-
Audit measures the extent to
which a regionally accepted map
of potentially resilient reefs has
been adopted and utilized in the
region.
Credit: Baja Sun Press
14. Eco-audit Workshops
Belize Guatemala
The Eco-Audit draws on input
from a variety of
NGOs, governmental
agencies, and the private sector
and includes publicly available
results.
In September and October
2011, HRI and WRI convened
four national workshops, whose
purpose was for participants to
collectively rank each indicator
and to compile documents to
Mexico verify the rankings.
Honduras
Credit: Benjamin Kushner
15. Call to Action
For the results of the Eco-Audit and to learn more, please visit…
www.healthyreefs.org
www.wri.org
This slideshow highlights the first-ever multinational Eco-Audit of the Mesoamerican Reef. The Eco-Audit evaluatesefforts to protect and sustainably manage the region’s coral reefs; celebratesmanagement success stories; and documentsthe extent to which recommended management actions have been implemented in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. Visit wri.org/reefs(link to http://www.wri.org/reefs) to learn more about the World Resources Institute’s collaboration with the Healthy Reef Initiative (http://www.healthyreefs.org/) to develop and implement the Eco-Audit of the Mesoamerican Reef. Credit: Rebecca Weeks
The Mesoamerican Reef is the largest coral reef in the Western Hemisphere. It stretches 1,000 kilometers (over 600 miles) from Mexico to Honduras. Credit: Map courtesy of Healthy Reefs for Healthy People
The Mesoamerican Reef provides a diverse array of goods and services to the people of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico including shoreline protection, critical habitat for fish, food, and more.Economies in the region are highly dependent on marine resources, especially from tourism and fishing industries. In Belize alone, the reef was estimated to contribute approximately US $395 - $559 million in goods and services each year.Credit: Jason Valdez, Belize
Unfortunately, the health of the reef is declining. This is the result of poor ecosystem management and encroaching threats including coastal development, overfishing, pollution, and climate change. Between 2008 and 2010, 62 percent of monitored reef sites decreased in health, and reef declines outpaced improvements by a ratio of five to one.[i] [i] Healthy Reefs for Healthy People. 2010. Report Card for the Mesoamerican Reef: An Evaluation of Ecosystem Health.Credit: Lawrence Alex Wu
An Eco-Audit is a systematic evaluation of how well governments, NGOs, and the private sector implementrecommended reef management actions.The Mesoamerican reef Eco-Audit includes 22 indicators across 7 themes, which are explored in the following slides.Credit: Gerick Bergsma
Marine Protected Areas are one of the most widely used management tools in reef conservation. Protected areas help to foster reef resilience, allowing coral reefs to recover more quickly from a variety of threats, including diseases and coral bleaching.The Eco-Auditexplores the spatial extent of protected areas and the degree of management and enforcement capacity. Credit: Krishna Desai
Overfishing and destructive fishing are the most widespread threats to coral reefs. The continued collapse of global fisheries will have far-reaching economic and ecological consequences.The Eco-Audit measures the standardization of fishing regulations for size limits and closed seasons, particularly in efforts to protect grouper spawning sites and parrotfish. Credit: Julie Stockbridge, Belize
Coastal development, including human settlements, industry, aquaculture, or infrastructure, can dramatically alter nearshore ecosystems.The Eco-Audit measures extent of coastal zone management plans in the reef countries plans or steps toward developing such plans.Credit: R. Ritson-Williams, Smithsonian Institute
The high level of nutrients present in sewage can result in blooms of plankton that block light and encourage the growth of algae that compete for space on the reef. Sewage also contains bacteria and viruses known to harm marine life, including corals. The Eco-Audit explores the extent to which regional standards for wastewater management have been developed and applied to the construction of new sewage treatment infrastructure.Credit: Steve Spring/Marine Photobank
The number of local leaders that understand reef ecosystems and their value has greatly increased in recent years. This knowledge has provided tools to better recognize problems, address threats, and gain political and public support for reef management and conservation. The Eco-Audit measures the efforts of researchers and managers to standardize monitoring methods and share the information in a publicly accessible and up-to-date database. Credit: Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRAA)
Marine recreation providers depend on healthy marine ecosystems, especially reefs. Partnerships between the private sector and governments or NGOs can facilitate information exchange, training in best environmental practices, and collaborative efforts to find solutions to issues of shared concern. The Eco-Audit measures the degree of participation of marine recreation providers in programs that promote environmental sustainability. Credit: Colin Zylka, Honduras
A global approach to protect coral reef ecosystems is essential to achieve meaningful action. We must work internationally, drawing on existing international frameworks and conventions, and also sharing knowledge, experience and ideas to achieve solutions to global-scale threats such as climate change.The Eco-Auditmeasures the extent to which a regionally accepted map of potentially resilient reefs has been adopted and utilized in the region.Credit: Baja Sun Press
Eco-Audit draws on input from a variety of NGOs, governmental agencies, and the private sector, and includes transparently verified and publicly available results. In September and October 2011, HRI and WRI convened four national workshops, whose purpose was for participants to collectively rank each indicator and to compile documents to verify the rankings. Credit: Benjamin Kushner
To learn more or get involved, please visit the World Resources Institute’s website (wri.org) or visit HeathyReefs.org For the results of the Eco-Audit and to learn more information, visit HRI at www.healthyreefs.org and WRI at www.wri.org/reefs.