This report was done on an article in Newsweek Magazine called “A Growing Coral Crisis”, written by Thomas Hayden, October 30, 2000.
At a meeting of coral reef scientists, including marine biologist Peter Edmonds of California State University, North Ridge, say that the coral reefs are the most endangered ecosystem on the planet.
A quarter of the world’s coral reefs are already gone and if global warming and hazardous fishing practices continue by Philippine and Indonesian fishermen all coral reefs as they now exist will be gone in the next 30 years.