The health of many coral reef ecosystems depends on effective management of land-based activities in adjacent coastal and upland regions to reduce nutrients, sediments, toxic chemicals, and more from reaching coral reef ecosystems.

EXAMPLE PROJECTS

National

First Guidance Manual for Unpaved Roads Standards for the Pacific and Caribbean Islands

Florida

Government Cut Inlet Watershed Management Plan

American Samoa

Building capacity for water quality and coral monitoring in American Samoa

Puerto Rico

Culebra LBSP Ridge to Reef Monitoring Program

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