The science of the sustainability of precious coral
CIBJO released ninth pre-CIBJO Congress 2024 special report With fewer than three weeks to go to the opening of the 2024 CIBJO Congress in Shanghai, China, on November 2, 2024, the ninth of the pre-congress Special Reports has been released. Prepared by the CIBJO Coral Commission, headed by Vincenzo Liverino, the report look at how the industry has relied on science both to ensure the sustainability of its own precious coral resources, as well as to help save non-precious reef corals that are under threat from global warming and ocean acidification. “While we have underlined the fact that deep-water precious corals should not be regarded in the same way as the shallow reef-corals, as a community that is a fully conscious of the necessity of conservation we share same global environmental concerns, and are committed to using the knowledge we have gained to conserve what remains in the shallow-water reefs and maybe revive what has been damaged in recent year...