Challenges to protect Asia Pacific reef systems
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New research on what's been dubbed the Asia-Pacific's "Coral Triangle" has been presented to the International Coral Reef Symposium underway in the United States.
Its focus is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots - an area covering nearly 200-thousand square kilometres and taking in waters off Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and East Timor.
The new work, on how coral species are related to each other, illustrates some of the complex challenges in protecting reef systems.
Presenter:Corinne Podger
Speaker: Mark Erdmann, of Conservation International in Bali
