{"id":17646,"date":"2019-04-11T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T17:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/?p=17646"},"modified":"2019-04-11T12:04:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T17:04:37","slug":"a-call-to-action-for-coral-reefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/a-call-to-action-for-coral-reefs\/","title":{"rendered":"A call to action for Coral Reefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coral reefs are increasingly vulnerable to stress factors, such as poor water quality, toxic substances from sunscreens, the massive arrival of sargassum, climate change, etc.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, in June 2018, white syndrome was detected for the first time in several coral species of the Mexican Caribbean. As explained by Dr. Lorenzo Alvarez Filip:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe damage caused in six months by white syndrome equals the coral mortality over the last 40 years in the Mexican Caribbean.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

For this reason, the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP<\/a>) \u2013 together with the UNAM-BARCO LAB\u2019s Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology<\/a>, Healthy Reefs<\/a>, GIZ<\/a>\u2019s ADAPTUR<\/a> project, the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature (FMCN<\/a>), the MAR Fund<\/a>, the Central American Integration System\u2019s Development and Environment Commission (CCAD-SICA<\/a>) and UNDP<\/a>\u2019s GEF-Resilience project \u2013 called for the design of an Action Plan.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 ADAPTUR\/Photo: Mariana Rodr\u00edguez Aguilera. Aerial view of the Riviera Maya.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On March 8, about 70 key stakeholders defined strategic actions to implement in the short-, medium- and long-term aimed at improving tourism practices, the integrated management of the coastal zone, and water and fisheries management.<\/p>\n

Coral reefs are an important economic source for tourism. In Cozumel alone, diving generates an estimated $4.662 million pesos of direct benefit each year. In addition, coral reefs protect against hurricanes and help with the formation of beaches.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9Photo: Lorenzo \u00c1lvarez Filip. White syndrome observed in corals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Finally, the head of CONANP\u2019s regional office for the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula and Mexican Caribbean, Cristopher Gonz\u00e1lez Baca, closed the event with the following reflection:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to make alliances and act together to recover the health of the reefs and the economic and social benefits that they produce for the region.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The ADAPTUR<\/a> project provides technical assistance to the tourism sector for adopting Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) solutions in Mexican territory and for its investment decisions. The project is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ<\/a>) GmbH<\/em> together with the Ministry of Tourism (SECTUR<\/a>) and Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT<\/a>), and receives technical support from the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP<\/a>) and the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (INECC<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\u00a9ADAPTUR\/Photo: Nallely Hern\u00e1ndez Palacios. Key actors building the Action Plan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coral reefs are increasingly vulnerable to stress factors, such as poor water quality, toxic substances from sunscreens, the massive arrival of sargassum, climate change, etc. Unfortunately, in June 2018, white syndrome was detected for the first time in several coral species of the Mexican Caribbean. As explained by Dr. Lorenzo Alvarez Filip: \u201cThe damage caused in six months by white syndrome equals the coral mortality over the last 40 years in the Mexican Caribbean.\u201d For this reason, the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP) \u2013 together with the UNAM-BARCO LAB\u2019s Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology, Healthy Reefs, GIZ\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[730,673,727],"tags":[],"tax1":[],"tax2":[],"tax3":[],"tax4":[],"class_list":["post-17646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainstreaming-en","category-climate-action","category-life-below-water"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17647,"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17646\/revisions\/17647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17646"},{"taxonomy":"tax1","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax1?post=17646"},{"taxonomy":"tax2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax2?post=17646"},{"taxonomy":"tax3","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax3?post=17646"},{"taxonomy":"tax4","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iki-alliance.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax4?post=17646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}