Glimmers of Hope Story published in Alert Diver Online . Written by Andrew Bruckner, Research coordinator for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Through an unprecedented collaborative effort, a dedicated response to stony coral tissue loss disease is underway within the Florida Reef Tract. By advancing understanding of the disease and developing options to manage… Read more »
Authors: Iker Irazabal, Reef Check Dominican Republic and Manuel Alejandro Rodriguez, Maguá Ecological Foundation, Sosúa, Dominican Republic. This report documents the first known instance of the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) in the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The disease, which currently affects a number of territories in the Caribbean, appears to be… Read more »
Press Release March 11, 2019 In commemoration of the Mesoamerican Reef Day, the Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative (HRI) is launching the brand-new Mesoamerican Reef Data Explorer Platform in collaboration with Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRRA) where users will be able to visualize over 10 years of reef health data collected, through… Read more »
A message from AMLC This is a final reminder that the poster abstract submission deadline is March 10th! Please visit: www.amlc-carib.org to submit your abstract. La fecha límite de póster de AMLC es 10 de marzo. Visita www.amlc-carib.org para enviar!!!
Striped Hamlet (Hypoplectus liberte), Fort Liberte Bay, Haiti, © Ken Marks 2018 In the fall of 2018, AGRRA Database Manager Ken Marks helped Benjamin Victor describe a new fish species, Striped Hamlet (Hypoplectus liberte) in Fort Liberte Bay on the northern coast of Haiti that had been initially discovered in 2015. While surveying with our… Read more »
Thank you to all our partners for your continued support and inspiration to help conserve Caribbean coral reef ecosystems. With your collaboration and participation, our collective 2018 accomplishments included: Challenging this year was the increased incidence of coral disease. Thank you to everyone who has responded so far, and please continue to send us observations and… Read more »
“Behind the scenes: the Healthy Reef Initiative’s Report Card,” a YouTube video which is based on AGRRA data for Mesoamerican reefs
Update submitted by Judith Lang Florida Background What scientists in Florida now think may be a new coral disease has spread from the Miami-Dade county area to both the northern limit of the Florida reef tract and southwest into the lower Florida Keys. A Disease Advisory Committee has been formed and its teams are drafting… Read more »
July 12, 2018 Caribbean-area reef researchers and sport divers should be on the lookout for sites with an unusually high percentage of diseased and recently dead corals. Many of you will have heard that corals in Florida are experiencing one of the largest disease… Read more »
After having been exposed to a severe bleaching event in the fall of 2017, the prevalence of sick and dying corals on north Jamaican reefs, has increased dramatically. Pseudodiploria strigosa, Diploria labyrinthiformis, Colpophyllia natans, Dendrogyra cylindrus , Montastraea cavernosa , as well as Orbicella , Mycetophyllia , and Agaricia are prominent among the taxa displaying signs… Read more »