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Article: Coral Reefs: Poisoned, Choked and BombedFragile Beauty Under Assault

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September 11, 2001
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Barry James
International Herald Tribune
09-11-2001
The most complete study ever carried out on the world's coral reefs warns that many of these ''critical, valuable and beautiful ecosystems'' face extinction because of rising temperatures and human pressures. The ''World Atlas of Coral Reefs,'' to be published Tuesday by the United Nations Environmental Program, for the first time describes and maps every known reef and gives detailed evidence of the things that ail them. Klaus Toepfer, executive director of the program, estimated in an interview here that the reefs supported between 60 and 70 percent of the world's fish stocks, yet were under assault from a deadly mix of human and ...

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