The Society’s Conservation Committee has produced a briefing document on the current crisis affecting the coral reefs of the South China Sea as a result of competing territorial claims and the subsequent intensification of a wide range of reef related fisheries, as well as infilling to create land and pollution
The committee emphasises the need for action to protect and manage sustainably an area which contains over 250 small islands, atolls, cays, shoals and sandbars and, supporting over 600 known species of coral, rivals the coral triangle in diversity. The full document (10 pages) can be downloaded here (ISRS South China Sea Briefing Document) or from the briefing documents and policy statements page.
