Launch of the WIO scenarios
On 9 July 2018 the scenarios for the future of the Western Indian Ocean/East and Southern Africa were launched at the Science-Policy forum of the Nairobi Convention in Durban, South Africa.
Posts under category: forecast
A risk manager’s approach to coral reefs
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 […]
Alerting the WIO to coral bleaching in the International Year of the Reef!
In 2018, the 3rd International Year of the Reef, CORDIO is keeping up with its mandate that it began in 2007, of producing the bi-monthly Western Indian Ocean bleaching alerts during the regional summer.
Bleaching response WIO 2016
Over 70 organizations and individuals responded to the coral bleaching event in 2016 in the Western Indian Ocean, reporting 680 observations of through an online reporting form. Dr. David Obura and Mishal Gudka of CORDIO East Africa (CORDIO EA), supported through the Biodiversity Project of the Indian Ocean Commission, present […]
WIO bleaching in 2016 – what to expect?
2015 has already been marked as the hottest year on record, and this is after 2014 having been a near-record year and the last five years being the hottest ever. These are in contrast to 1998, which was the year when Indian Ocean corals bleached and suffered mass mortality. Associated […]
