CoralTrade

Coral Reef Trade Outline

Demand and Use of Coral: Business behind the Trade

• when it first became popular
• brief history
• 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 & removal methods
• manipulating the poisons
• stun fish & treatment of other marine life
• 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