Wahyu Dwi Anggoro
Coral reefs provide food, livelihoods, and storm protection for just under half of the world’s population, but approximately 75 percent of coral reefs worldwide are threatened.
The focus area of the activities will be at Lesser-Sunda, Banda, and Bird’s Head Seascapes. Priorities include conserving globally threatened or endemic species that depend on coral reef ecosystems for critical habitat; protecting threatened or vulnerable coral reef ecosystems of high conservation value; promoting sustainable use of coral reef biodiversity; reducing the threat to, or increasing the connectivity between, coral reef areas; creating new protected areas as appropriate; and directly contributing to the improved management of existing public, private, municipal, or communal protected areas and their conservation targets. (WHY)
