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Celebrate Corals Week

Corals Week is December 9–13, 2024! Join us in celebrating this diverse group of invertebrate animals and the reef habitats they create.
December 09, 2024 - Feature Story ,
National
Corals in clear pristine waters. Shallow water provides habitat for branching corals (Acropora spp), as seen here on a reef flat in Guam. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jonathan Brown

Hawai‘i Coral Reef Assessments Complete for 2024

Kānaka ʻŌiwi knowledge systems, values, and practices inform a 3-month mission assessing coral reef health and ocean conditions in Hawai‘i as part of the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program.
November 27, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
Healthy coral reef with fishes in the foreground, a diver conducts a survey in the background. A scientist carefully hovers above the reef off of Kailua-Kona to take photographs while swimming along a transect line. He took more than 1,000 photos of this single transect that will be stitched together to form a 3D model of this reef. It will be interesting to see how this reef with high coral cover has changed over time! Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Dani Escontrella

Must-Read Pacific Islands Stories of 2023

Year in review: Find out which of our stories you read the most and which ones we highly recommend.
December 29, 2023 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
A person wearing scuba gear instructs two other divers as they use an adhesive applicator to affix corals to substrate underwater. Kuleana Coral Reef’s NOAA-sponsored training program instructs how to apply adhesive to a substrate to attach a rescued coral of opportunity (one that has detached from the reef). Credit: Blake Nowack/Kuleana Coral Reefs

Collaboration Guides Completion of 2023 Seafloor Mapping and Coral Reef Assessments

Researchers share highlights from their 5-month mission in the central and south Pacific mapping the seafloor and assessing coral reef health and ocean conditions.
December 20, 2023 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
A collage of photos shows schools of fish, vibrant reefs, scuba divers laying transects, and scientists sharing information with the public. A few of the highlights from the 2023 mission. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Meet Your Pacific Islands Protected Coral Species

Five of the 15 Indo-Pacific corals listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act occur in U.S. waters. Here they are!
December 07, 2023 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
Yellow coral that has colonies of thick, finger-like branches that are always closely spaced. Acropora globiceps at Tinian island, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Under the Endangered Species Act, A. globiceps is listed as threatened in CNMI, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaiʻi, and the Pacific Remote Islands Area. Credit: Doug Fenner

The Endangered Species Act: 50 Years of Conserving Species

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act by learning more about NOAA's work to conserve endangered species and their habitats.
May 19, 2023 - Feature Story ,
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50th Anniversary of the Endangered Species Act with smalltooth sawfish, green turtle, Atlantic salmon, staghorn, North Atlantic right whale, and Tubastraea floreana

“A Better Chance for Resilience”: Using Hungry Fish to Conserve Coral Reefs

NOAA Fisheries scientist Tye Kindinger explains how identifying the best algae-grazing fish in the Pacific region can help fight against algae overgrowth and promote recovery of distressed coral reefs.
April 17, 2022 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
A school of large parrotfish (Chlorurus frontalis) observed during fish surveys on a coral reef. A school of large parrotfish (Chlorurus frontalis) observed during fish surveys on a coral reef. These fish use their bird-like beaks to scrape away seaweed, or algae, on reefs. Larger parrotfish remove small amounts of underlying substrate, which creates new spaces for corals to grow. Credit: Kevin Lino/NOAA Fisheries