Image: UNEP, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Flickr. Excerpt from eco-business.com
The Coral Triangle, one of the planet’s most diverse reef regions, is under siege.
The area, spanning the waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste, is home to 75 per cent of the world’s known coral species. It sustains 3,000 species of reef fish and the livelihoods of over 120 million people. But over 85 per cent of its reefs are threatened by rising temperatures, ocean acidification, pollution and unsustainable fishing, according to the World Resources Institute.