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	Saving the Coral

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6-4-2008 9:38 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1955e754-24bb-4a4e-b427-c8eb35e40f6e/CD47C60B-CAF3-48FC-8E3D-B55A25EBB14E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nature.org/initiatives/protectedareas/features/art24892.html" href="http://www.nature.org/initiatives/protectedareas/features/art24892.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nature.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.org/initiatives/protectedareas/features/art24892.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nature.org/img/55A470AF-E1CE-4500-A3A5-8102D17DE368" alt="Global Coral Map" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.org/initiatives/protectedareas/features/art24892.html"><DIV class="text2"><STRONG>World Ocean Day is June 8.</STRONG> Celebrate by helping us <A target="_blank" href="https://support.nature.org/site/Donation2?df_id=2780&2780.donation=form1">rescue the coral reefs of the tropics</A>. With your help, we can protect the world’s beautiful seascapes and <A target="_blank" href="https://support.nature.org/site/Donation2?df_id=2780&2780.donation=form1"><B>Rescue the Reef!</B></A><B> 
</B></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.org/initiatives/protectedareas/features/art24892.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nature.org/img/C733B1E2-6AE1-423E-889A-9913808683AE" alt="Protected Areas: Protecting Coral Reefs from the Caribbean to Micronesia" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.org/initiatives/protectedareas/features/art24892.html"><P>Just below the water's surface lies a magical world teeming with life and value. Coral reefs are <B>home to 4,000 fish species</B> and provide the world with goods and services — such as jobs, foods, medicines and storm protection — <B>worth $375 billion annually.</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.org/initiatives/protectedareas/features/art24892.html"><P>But scientists estimate that <B>70 percent of all corals reefs could be lost by 2050</B> if current rates of destruction continue — from factors ranging from overfishing to climate change.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.org/initiatives/protectedareas/features/art24892.html"><P>That's why The Nature Conservancy is supporting<B> three major policy efforts</B> by island nations around the world to conserve marine diversity — the <A href="http://www.nature.org/wherewework/asiapacific/micronesia/howwework/">Micronesia Challenge</A>, the <A href="http://www.nature.org/wherewework/asiapacific/coraltriangle/initiatives/">Coral Triangle Initiative</A> and <A href="http://www.nature.org/initiatives/protectedareas/features/art24943.html">the newly launched Caribbean Challenge</A>, which is being aided by a $20 million Conservancy pledge.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.org/initiatives/protectedareas/features/art24892.html">aim of <B>protecting 20 percent of the region's marine and coastal habitat by 2020</B></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CD47C60B-CAF3-48FC-8E3D-B55A25EBB14E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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