NASA calls on divers’ coral data
KSLOF
IT’S A SHOCKING statistic – Earth has lost more than half of its coral reefs over the past 40 years.
The rest could be gone by 2099 if conservationists prove unable to reverse the decline, but they need an accurate means of mapping their progress.
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF)’s 10-year Global Reef Expedition was, it says, one of the biggest coral surveys ever carried out, with much of the work done by scuba-divers. Now their painstakingly gathered highresolution data is set to be put to work through a new partnership.