World Atlas of Coral Reefs
Prepared at
The UNEP World Conservation
Monitoring Centre
219 Huntingdon Road
Cambridge CB3 DDL. UK
Website; www.unep-wcmc.org
Director: Mark Collins
Authors
Mark D. Spalding
Connna Ravilious
Edmund P. Green
Research assistants
Sarah Carpenter
Rachel Donnelly
Space Shuttle photographic research
Julie A, Robinson
Marco Noordeloos
Photographs
Edmund R Green and Mark D. Spalding
unless otherwise stated
UNEP WCMC
The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring
Centre provides objective, scientifically
rigorous products and services that
include ecosystem assessments, support
for implementation of environmental
agreements, regional and global biodiversity information, research on threats
and impacts, and development of future
scenarios for the living world.
The Centre became the biodiversity
information and assessment arm of the
United Nations Environment Programme
in June 2000. It was founded in 1979 by
lUCN and in 1988 was transformed into a
joint activity of lUCN, WWF and UNEP. The
financial support and guidance of these
organizations in the Centre's formative
years is gratefully acknowledged.
Cartography
Corinna Ravilious
Layout
John Dunne
Color separations
Swaingrove
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