Exit La Niña, enter El Niño The protracted La Niña phase that started in 2020 provided a haven for corals of the Western Indian Ocean (WIO). No significant bleaching was reported between 2020 and 2022 as a result. This haven is now diminishing as La Niña gradually comes to an […]
This study points to specific policies to address climate and fishery threats to coral reefs of the Western Indian Ocean After an 18-month analysis, researchers at CORDIO East Africa in collaboration with scientists from over 35 other organizations around the world have published their findings on the state of coral […]
How hot will 2021 be? Looking back, 2020 was tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, making it the sixth in a series of exceptionally warm years starting in 2015, and 2011-2020 was the warmest decade recorded on the planet. This low level of bleaching was confirmed by […]
A popularized article ‘Coral Bleaching: Using Participatory Reporting To Track Mass-Bleaching In The Western Indian Ocean‘ has been featured on Science Trends, a science communication platform projecting peer-reviewed research out to the public.
The challenge The first complete assessment of reef-building corals was completed in 2008 (Carpenter et al. 2008) from which the Red List Index of corals shows the most significant decline of all taxonomic groups assessed (fig. below), due to the impact of the 1998 global coral bleaching event. Cost/investment We estimate […]
The Comoros islands are a poorly known volcanic chain of islands in between Mozambique and Madagascar in the ‘hotspot’ of coral reef biodiversity for the Western Indian Ocean. They still possess some beautiful areas of coral, but are threatened because of the combined effects of over-fishing, sedimentation from deforestation on land, coral […]
On Saturday the 8th of September 2018, CORDIO hosted a successful screening of the documentary film ‘Chasing Coral’ at Nyali Cinemax. The turnout was great (over 290 people!) and it was inspiring to see many people from various backgrounds and ages attend. Chasing Coral is a splendour of vivid underwater […]
Major coral bleaching has been reported in Mayotte four times – in 1983, 1998, 2010 and 2016. During the 2010 event a survey carried out by the Tara Expeditions documented the bleaching in detail, estimating the full impact of the bleaching event.
The 2016 mass bleaching of corals in the Western Indian Ocean resulted in a 20% decline in coral cover at over 130 sites with long term monitoring data. This is the main finding of the report released today at the Nairobi Convention Science-Policy workshop in Durban, South Africa. Coral/algae compensatory […]
Will a financial portfolio approach help to minimize losses to the world’s coral reefs, and those that depend on, them due to climate change? This is the objective of the research and conservation teams in the 50 reefs project and supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Paul G. Allen Foundation and The […]
