Coral Reefs Will Recover if Human Impacts Managed

From: Sea Technology | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

A new report suggest that most Indian Ocean coral reefs escaped serious damage after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in 2004, and could naturally recover within five to 10 years if damage from human activities can be reduced. Status of Coral Reefs in Tsunami-Affected Countries: 2005 maintains that while a small number of coral reefs may take 20 or more years to recover, and some individual coral reefs may not recover at all, the major threats to the reefs of the Indian Ocean continue to be from human activities such as over-fishing, deforestation and climate change.

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