Reef fish are a highly valuable natural asset in the Coral Triangle. Yet the current trade in this resource is destroying marine environments, depleting fish stocks and leaving coastal communities vulnerable. How can we change this dangerous course?
At the Ninth Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP9) in May 2008 in Bonn, delegates of 67 countries pledged support for WWF's call for zero net deforestation by 2020.
At a time when global climate change projections point to an ecological and human catastrophe in the Coral Triangle, we must choose another future. But there isn't much time to act.
Marine Protected Areas guard against environmental degradation and climate change. But in the Coral Triangle there are too few of them, and many have no finance and function ineffectively. This has to change.
Across the Coral Triangle, entire populations of marine turtles are being wiped out. What will it take to bring them back?
Tuna feeds millions of people, sustains economies, and is an essetnial ecological link in the marine food web. But in the Coral Triangle, these benefits are on the brink of being list. So what do we do?
Some voices now say that we have run out of time for a comprehensive climate change deal in Copenhagen; that we should only focus on some of the early action and implementation issues and tackle the politically difficult issues later; that a scientifically-based, comprehensive and ratifiable outcome is not feasible at this point in time; or not necessary.
Our response is: we do not need more time, it is not impossible, what we need is the political will to take the hard, ambitious decisions to reach agreement on a comprehensive and legally binding deal in Copenhagen, in December 2009.
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