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MEDIA RELEASE Citizens and conservation groups have taken legal action to require the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources to protect Hawaii’s reefs and coastal areas from unlimited collection of fish and other wildlife for the aquarium trade. Specifically, the groups are as king DLNR to conduct environmental reviews — including an examination of […]

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ReefWatchers and other interested folks will join in the hunt for spawning corals again this year. His articles on spawnings in 2007 and 2008 have highlighted the value of volunteers making observations and reporting their information. Together we have documented information on cauliflower coral, antler coral and lobe or mound corals. None of this work […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Pan Pacific Coral Health and Disease Workshop Overview In July 2008, at the 11th Annual International Coral Reef Symposium, coral disease researchers presented mounting evidence of the rising prevalence and severity of global coral diseases.   While an unprecedented increase in coral disease has been well-documented in the Caribbean over the last decade, […]

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