The International Coral Reef Initiative is formed
A voluntary partnership of governments and organisations is announced to raise reef conservation internationally, with no treaty basis and no enforcement mechanism. Its practical output became the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network and the periodic Status of Coral Reefs of the World reports — the first attempts to state, on one consistent basis, how much reef there is and what condition it is in.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- International Coral Reef Initiative · organisation · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2000
Around sixteen per cent of the world's reef-building corals died in the 1998 global bleaching event, with losses very unevenly distributed and most severe in the western Indian Ocean. V55 verification basis: not consulted; the sixteen per cent figure is the widely repeated headline of this report and is stated from the producing model's knowledge, not read from the report. The regional breakdown behind it was not checked.
Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, edited by Clive Wilkinson; Australian Institute of Marine Science · 2000 · Partly verified
Wilkinson, C. (ed.) (2000), Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2000, GCRMN / AIMS — the assessment of the 1998 global bleaching event.
Recorded on International Coral Reef Initiative
- The International Coral Reef Initiative is formed
- The fourth global bleaching event is confirmed
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