With more than 75 percent of the world’s coral species and twice the number of reef fish found anywhere else in the world,
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By Katie Reytar and Witold Fraczek, Esri on January 19, 2012
This piece originally appeared in the Winter 2012 edition of Esri’s ArcUser Magazine. The full text, graphics, and GIS datasets are available here.
Despite their benefits to national economies, reefs around the world are at risk, including in the United States.
The grounding of a freight vessel poses yet another challenge to the world’s most diverse marine habitat.