by Tom Goreau | Mar 24, 2024
Sediment dredging is killing corals and must stop during bleaching events Caption: Coral reef sediment dredging in the Maldives, seen in this satellite image, leaves long plumes of fine sediments that smother and eventually kill corals. The plume, larger than most...
by Tom Goreau | Feb 24, 2024
MALDIVES DREDGE DUMPING ON CORAL REEFS STOPPED BY INJUNCTION A massive Maldives project to dump dredged material on top of reefs to create artificial islands has been stopped for the first time by a Maldives Court Injunction, due to lack of scientifically sound...
by Tom Goreau | Jan 31, 2023
Dredging to create artificial islands just centimeters above sea level is damaging the Maldivian coral reefs that built and protected the islands. Concerned Maldivians point out how the country’s future is being sacrificed to short term profit in Open letter to...
by tsarkisian | Jan 30, 2018
The lawsuit by Centro de Incidencia Ambiental (CIAM) against dredging that would damage coral reefs in front of the Panama Canal (based on GCRA reef surveys with the Galeta Marine Laboratory) was admitted by Panamanian Courts on 8 January 2018. This means that the...
