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• In 1998 UNEP-WCMC, ICLARM and the World Resources Institute combined to produce the first detailed assessment of the threats to reefs world-wide.
• Reefs at Risk (map) found that some 58% of the world’s coral reefs were threatened by coastal development, pollution, sedimentation and poor fishing practices.
• Since then UNEP-WCMC has been working on a number of other stressing, including the compilation of a major global database on the distribution of coral diseases.