Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System

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1. Story
2. The largest reef system in the Atlantic, running roughly a thousand kilometres along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras, from the northern Yucatan to the Bay Islands. The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, a component of it, was inscribed as World Heritage in 1996, placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2009 over offshore oil concessions and mangrove clearance, and removed from that list in 2018 after Belize legislated a moratorium on offshore petroleum work — one of the few reversals on that list, and a demonstration that the Danger listing can function as leverage rather than only as an epitaph. Ecologically the Mesoamerican reef is the counter-example to the Pacific story told through the Great Barrier Reef: its dominant losses have come less from heat alone than from disease, first the white-band epizootic that removed the Caribbean acroporids from about 1980, then stony coral tissue loss disease from the 2010s.
3. Knowledge
4. Great Barrier Reef
5. Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
6. Connections
7. Great Barrier Reef
8. Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD)
9. Caribbean-wide mass mortality of the long-spined sea urchin
10. The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System is inscribed as World Heritage
11. Belize's reef is removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
12. Coral Triangle
13. Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
14. Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster)
15. Australian Institute of Marine Science
16. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
17. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act creates a single managing authority
18. The Great Barrier Reef is inscribed on the World Heritage List
19. Mass synchronous spawning described on the Great Barrier Reef
20. The Long-Term Monitoring Program begins annual reef surveys
21. A measured decline in Great Barrier Reef coral calcification is published
22. Twenty-seven years of monitoring show coral cover roughly halved
23. Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
24. A second consecutive year of mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
25. Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef during a La Nina
26. The fifth mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016
27. The current state of the fourth global bleaching event is not established in this package
28. Evidence
29. The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System was inscribed in 1996, placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2009, and removed from that list in 2018 following a moratorium on offshore petroleum activity. V55 verification basis: NOT retrieved; the three dates and the reason for removal are stated from the producing model's knowledge of the Committee's decisions and must be checked against the decision texts.