CoralTrade
From coraldigest
The Coral Trade
Coral Reef Trade Outline
- Demand and Use of Coral: Business behind the Trade
- when it first became popular
- products and uses (jewelry to medical)
- Ethical Concerns behind the Trade culture
- wild animal trade
- “pet trade”
- Legal issues and Policies on Coral Reef Trade
- Executive Order no. 13089 for the Protection of Coral Reefs
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
- discussed during Clinton Administration
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- Trade used for Destructive practices
- removing reefs
- manipulating the poisons
- stun fish
- killing coral
- Biological Damage caused by removal of Corals
- long generation periods for regrowth
- importance of coral to other organisms within reef ecosystem
- statistics/percentages of marine life based in coral reefs and the natural destruction and death of coral