ICRAN
The International Coral Reef
Action Network
The International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN), established
in 2000, ICRAN is an innovative and dynamic global programme
that focuses on strengthening the capacity of communities
to manage their tropical marine resources through monitoring,
education and public awareness and its activities are coordinated
through the Regional Seas Programme. Made up of some of
the world's leading coral reef scientists and conservation
groups, ICRAN partners have created a globally integrated
action plan to manage and protect coral reefs, based on
recommendations from the International Coral Reef Initiative
(ICRI).
ICRAN responds to global conservation needs by recognizing
both traditional and scientific perspectives of coral reef
dynamics and respective social dependency. It seeks to put
financial mechanisms in place that support and sustain direct
on-the-ground action throughout the world's coral reef regions.
ICRAN is being implemented in several of the Regional Seas:
Eastern Africa, East Asia, South Pacific and the Wider Caribbean
regions. Its expansion to the SAS region was announced at
the WSSD in 2002 and was endorsed at the Special Session
of the Governing Council of South Asian Co-operative Environment
Programme (SACEP) in January 2003.
Currently ICRAN and SACEP are jointly producing a status
report on coral reef management in the region and a proposal
for improved site-based coral reef management. ICRAN is
also trying to expand in the ROPME Sea Area and the Red
Sea and Gulf of Aden region.
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