'Coral reefs are being decimated, but it's not too late to save them,' Jack Kittinger writes for CNNOpinion. 'We must take action to preserve these vital ecosystems.'
Jack Kittinger is the senior director of the Global Fisheries and Aquaculture Program for Conservation International, a non-profit environmental organization. He is also a professor of practice and Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Chair in Arizona State University's Global Futures Laboratory and School of Sustainability.
Coral reefs are facing their own pandemic. For years, people have compromised the immunity of these ecosystems through pollution and overfishing. Meanwhile, climate change has created a fever in our oceans by raising temperatures and acidifying seas. The resulting outbreak has decimated approximately half of the world's reefs.
This devastation is well known. When I tell people that I work on coral reefs, their instinct is to offer condolences. What is less well known, and arguably more important, is that it's not too late to save our remaining reefs. We can -- and must -- take action to save these vital ecosystems.By some estimates, coral reefs provide food and livelihoods for a billion people around the world. They also support one out of every four marine species.
The race to save the Great Barrier Reef 03:49We found that the effectiveness of a strategy depends on the initial health of the reef and the level of human pressure it experiences. How much an individual reef has been degraded and how much stress it is exposed to inevitably shapes our ability to restore that ecosystem. Conservation potentialUnfortunately, for highly degraded reefs where there is a lot of human pressure, our options are limited.
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