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Concerned Citizens Take Action to Protect Coral Reefs

Online Stock Market Trading Citizens across the country are taking action to help protect the world's threatened coral reefs. Businesses, youth groups, aquariums, dive clubs and individuals aim to raise $35,000 by Earth Day (April 22), to pay for grassroots conservation projects at six of the world's most important coral reef protected areas in: Hol Chan, Belize; Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles; Namena, Fiji; Cozumel, Mexico; Rock-Islands, Palau; and Southeast Cebu, Philippines.

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Stock Investing Course The campaign, known as the "Coral Park Buddy" program, is part of the annual Dive In To Earth Day event coordinated by the Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL). It was developed in response to a call for help from park managers in coral reef protected areas around the world. "Marine protected areas are one of the best tools we have to protect coral reefs," said Brian Huse, CORAL's Executive Director. "However, too often they lack the resources necessary to protect their reefs. The good news is that a little money goes a long way in these small communities. For example, as little as $4,000 will buy a patrol boat needed to stop illegal fishing at a marine park in the Philippines."

At the far end of the passage was another sheer wall dropping straight down into the blue. We had swum clear through the reef. Mary's Place was actually a huge outcropping of solid coral fractured by a past earthquake that created the canyons. On the offshore side, a large school of creole wrasse, purple with black noses and orange flanks, streamed up and over the wall, flowing around soft corals and giant barrel sponges. The corals looked fine with no apparent damage from either hurricane or divers.

Stock Market Game Anyone can be a Park Buddy and help fundraise. Nancy Stryble of Oakland, California, visits Namena, Fiji at every opportunity she gets. While local villagers set aside Namena as a coral reef protected area, the lack of moorings means that anchor damage is still a problem. "I've been so fortunate to see how beautiful Namena's reefs are, and future generations deserve the same opportunity," said Nancy. "The program is special because it not only preserves the reef and fisheries, but it directly benefits the local villages and provides a model for other communities as well." Nancy plans to donate $1000 of her own money to fund the mooring buoy project, and she'll ask her dive buddies to match her donation.

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Stock Investing Game There are numerous ways to fundraise, from benefit dinners, to contests, to dive-a-thons. Donovan Watts of Berkeley, California, plans to hold an online raffle to help pay for a Park Ranger education course in Bonaire. Well-known musician and snorkeling enthusiast, Ottmar Liebert, agreed to donate one of his guitars to Donovan's raffle. "I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask Mr. Liebert, and he said okay! That's music to my ears." The Dive In website ( http://www.coral.org/divein) links to the raffle and lists other great fundraising ideas to get you started.

If Bonaire is a repository of some of the best coral and marine life, it’s because it enacted legislation a long time ago to keep it so. The untouched beauty of this place is stunning and its Marine Park is well worth a visit. From a vast variety of reef fish that is supposed to encompass the world’s most diverse types in a spectrum of incredible hues to coral of every kind – soft coral, fire coral, stag, elkhorn, patch reefs.

Journal Prime Rate Street Wall The Coral Park Buddy campaign was launched as part of the annual Dive In To Earth Day event, developed to combat the lack of public attention to coral reefs and aquatic issues. Since 2000, nearly 135,000 people have organized 874 Dive In events in more than 80 countries around the world, including beach cleanups, community festivals, educational programs, and reef monitoring events. The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) coordinates Dive In To Earth Day in partnership with Project AWARE Foundation, and with the support of Air Pacific, Earth Day Network, International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN), and West Marine.

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