Acknowledgements

< p>The Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean project would not have been possible without the encouragement and financial support provided by the United Nations Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations Environment Programme - Caribbean Environment Programme, the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation, the Henry Foundation, the World Bank / GEF Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System Project, the National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research, the Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense, and the World Fish Center. The Reefs at Risk project is part of the International Coral Reef Action Network, a collaboration developed to reverse the decline of the world