The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) is a partnership among governments, international organizations, and non-government organizations. It strives to preserve coral reefs and related ecosystems by implementing Chapter 17 of Agenda 21, and other relevant international conventions and agreements. More...

Tue, 2012-04-10 06:35
ICRI Grants Program 2012-2013

Expressions of Interest (EOIs) for the ICRI Grants program are now open. If you are a small community group or NGO and you need funding for a small project that relates to coral reef management and protection, you are encouraged to apply.

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Wed, 2012-05-09 08:38

SBSSTA adopts recommendations on marine issues

The sixteenth session of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) convened from 30 April - 5 May 2012 in Montreal, Canada, directly prior to the fourth meeting of the Ad hoc Working Group on the Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI). More than 400 representatives from governments, intergovernmental and non- governmental organizations, indigenous and local communities, business and academia attended the meeting.Read more

Sun, 2012-05-06 03:29

World Bank Invests in Sustainable Ocean Ecosystem Management

The World Bank published a brief titled "Helping to Better Manage the World's Oceans," which presents the sectoral results for sustainable ocean ecosystem management and the Bank's role in the creation of the Global Partnership for Oceans.Read more

Thu, 2012-05-03 05:09

France designates network of 14 Caribbean ponds

France has designated its 41st Wetland of International Importance, called “Zones humides et marines de Saint-Martin” (2,997 hectares, 18°05’N 063°05’W), a Protected Biotope and Nature Reserve on the Caribbean island of Saint-Martin, shared by France and the Netherlands (as Sint-Maarten). The site, as summarized from the Ramsar Information Sheet by Ramsar’s Kati Wenzel, comprises shallow marine waters, sea grass beds, coral reefs, mangroves, lagoons and a network of 14 ponds dispersed throughout the French side of the island.Read more

Tue, 2012-05-01 12:23

ICRI promotes its work at SBSTTA-16, Montreal, Canada

The ICRI Secretariat has worked with its Regional Lionfish Committee (one of ICRI's so called 'Ad Hoc Committees) and the ICRI East Asia Initiative to submit two posters and abstracts to the Secretariat of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) for release at the 16th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-16) being held in Montreal, Canada on 30 April - 5 May 2012.Read more

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