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Reef Talk 2
June
Reef Talk, the quarterly newsletter of the 2008 Pacific Year of the Reef campaign has just been released. You will find stories and updates from most parts of the Pacific. It is available on the PYOR page of the SPREP website. Learn More
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11th the International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS)
July 7, 2008
A celebration of the International Year of the Reef 2008 will be held at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium on Monday the 7th of July 2008.
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secretariat will have a booth (# 502) at the exhibit of the ICRS where ICRI and IYOR materials will be displayed and available. We are looking forward seeing you at the ICRS
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Awareness meetings in coastal villages in the Gulf of Mannar
Suganthi Devadason Marine Research Institute
A series of awareness meetings to raise awareness about the importance of coral reefs toward fishermen is being held in the gulf of Mannar. To date, two meetings have been held and more to come.
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The Gulf of Mannar (GoM) was declared a Marine Biosphere Reserve under UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Programme in 1989 by the Government of India. The 140 km long coastal stretch of GoM, extending from Rameswaram to Tuticorin is having 21 uninhabited islands surrounded by coral reefs and was declared as Marine National Park by Tamil Nadu State Government in 1986.
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World Water Monitring Day (WWMD)
September 18, 2008
World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) is pleased to partner with the International Year of the Reef (IYOR) in 2008 in a joint effort to highlight the importance of water quality to marine wildlife. Slight shifts in key water quality indicators such as pH, temperature, turbidity and dissolved oxygen can have a direct impact on where marine organisms live (in this case coral reefs) and whether their populations are able to flourish. Citizens around the globe are encouraged to monitor their oceans in celebration of IYOR this year.
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The World Water Monitoring Day encourages participation from Low- and Middle-Income countries through the donation of monitoring kits. For more information, please contact wwmd@wef.org.
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Reef Fest
Rockin' for the reefs!
Reef Fest is a series of music concerts happening in South Florida and beyond to raise money and awareness for coral reef conservation!
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OSPAR-IYOR Side Event on "Cold-Water Coral Reefs"
June 25th, 2008 at 6:00 PM
IYOR is not only about tropical coral reefs. An OSPAR-IYOR Side Event on "Cold-Water Coral Reefs" will be held at the Oceanopolis (Brest, France) on June 25th, 2008 at 6:00 PM. This event is sponsored by the French government and the French Marine Protected Areas Agency.
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Learn more about the Coral Ecosystems of cold, deep waters.
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Bonaire's International Year of the Reef Week
June 21-28, 2008
Sand Dollar Condominium Resort Resort's IYOR week will focus on Bonaire's role as a world leader in marine conservation. The week will feature dives and seminars with Jan and Alexandra Cousteau of EarthEcho International; REEF fish count dives and snorkels with Bonaire's own naturalist Jerry Ligon; interactive workshops with Bryan Dias from the Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL); and a parade and food festival in the center of town at Wilhelmina Park.
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2008 Olympics artist Wyland painted Whaling Wall Mural in celebration of the International Year of the Reef 2008
June 6-14, 2008
Marine life artist and conservation advocate Wyland has slated the city of North Lauderdale for the penultimate mural in his internationally renowned Whaling Wall art project, in celebration of the International Year of the Reef 2008
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Earlier this year, on February 27 in Washington, DC, Wyland unveiled a 7-foot by 4-foot canvas made in celebration of the International Year of the Reef 2008.The artist considers it one of his best works to date. Learn More
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World Ocean Day
June 8th, 2008
This year's theme was "helping our climate / helping our ocean" with a special focus on coral reefs. Several activities were organized in order to promote the International Year of the Reef.
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For more information, about the World Ocean Day, visit: the Ocean Project or World Ocean Network.
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Crown-of-Thorn collection day in Zanzibar
June 1, 2008
As part of the activities for the International Year of the Reef in Zanzibar, a one day Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish (COTS) collection day was arranged on three reefs close to Stonetown, Zanzibar. The main purpose of the day was to create media attention in order to increase awareness of the COTS problem and the value of healthy coral reefs.
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IYOR at the Ninth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9)
May 26, 2008
The ICRI secretariat, with support from the Convention on Biological Diversity secretariat, held an ICRI-CBD side event on "Marine Biodiversity and the International Year of the Reef".
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An IYOR 2008 presentation was also made at the CBD CEPA Fair
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Clean Up East Asian Seas Campaign 2008
COBSEA, the UNEP Regional Seas Programme for the East Asian Seas region has just launched its Clean Up East Asian Seas Campaign 2008. The campaign encourages organizations among the COBSEA member countries to register local cleanup activities to the campaign and to report their data. COBSEA member countries are also encouraged using this campaign to promote the International Year of the Reef.
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Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup is the world’s largest volunteer event of its kind. Last year, 378,000 volunteers from 76 countries and 45 states cleared six million pounds of trash from oceans and waterways and recorded every piece of trash collected. This year's cleanup effort is on Sept. 20, 2008.
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IYOR Fund
in partnership with NFWF
In addition to participating in IYOR events and developing your own activities and events as part of the campaign you can also offer financial support to the IYOR campaign. You can donate directly to the online IYOR Fund. All donations made to the IYOR Fund (administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), a 501(c)3 non-profit conservation organizations) are tax deductible.
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IYOR Creative
www.iyorcreative.com
NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation have worked together to develop a U.S. IYOR Messaging Campaign. 5 Action Messages have been developed into freely downloadable print advertisements. These ads and other similarly branded products are available to all groups planning their IYOR campaigns - the more coral conservation groups who use these ads, the more impact we can expect to have.
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In the same time, an IYOR U.S. Public Service Announcement with "Every Act Counts" for theme was developed (by NOAA, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, UrbanArts Institute at Mass College of Art). Several PSAs are now freely available and for some of them broadcast daily on discovery Channel (more news soon).
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International launches
Worldwide
Since the beginning of the year, several national launches and proclamations have happened around the world.
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The International Year of the Reef (IYOR 2008) was officially launched on the evening of January 24th, 2008 in Washington DC at a celebration event hosted by The World Bank.
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