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Palmetto point development: potential impacts on Barbuda’s fisheries

Palmetto point development: potential impacts on Barbuda’s fisheries

by mtessis | May 19, 2020

Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance     Any development at Palmetto Point would cause significant, and probably irreversible, deterioration of water quality in Codrington Lagoon, Barbuda’s major fish nursery ground. Codrington...
Golf courses kill coral reefs and fisheries: harmful algae blooms and disease caused by nutrient runoff from golf course development on Guana Cay, Abaco, Bahamas

Golf courses kill coral reefs and fisheries: harmful algae blooms and disease caused by nutrient runoff from golf course development on Guana Cay, Abaco, Bahamas

by mtessis | May 19, 2020

Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance   Introduction: Bahamas coral reef deterioration   This study is thought the first ever to evaluate the health of coral reef ecosystems and fisheries before and after a golf course development....
Government of Philippines to shut down Boracay, the country’s top tourist attraction, due to pollution

Government of Philippines to shut down Boracay, the country’s top tourist attraction, due to pollution

by mtessis | Apr 6, 2018

GCRA assessed coral health, algae, and water quality all around Boracay in 1997 and 2007, and made recommendations on tertiary sewage treatment to recycle waste nutrients on land and keep them off the reef. The first report was banned by the Minister of Tourism, and...

Land-Sourced Pollution with an Emphasis on Domestic Sewage: Lessons from the Caribbean and Implications for Coastal Development on Indian Ocean and Pacific Coral Reefs

by herrzoox | Sep 10, 2010

Sustainability 2010, 2, 2919-2949; doi:10.3390/su2092919 sustainability ISSN 2071-1050 www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability Andre DeGeorges 1,2,*, Thomas J. Goreau 1 and Brian Reilly 2 1 Global Coral Reef Alliance, 37 Pleasant Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; E-Mail:...

Coral Reefs, Sewage and Quality Standards

by Lauren Cabot | Oct 3, 1994

Thomas Goreau, Caribbean Water & Wastewater Third Conference, Kingston, Jamaica, October 3-7, 1994 Download paper: Coral Reefs, Sewage and Quality Standards

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