NOAA announced this week it will afford Endangered Species Act protections to 20 coral species. All 20 species will be listed as threatened, none as endangered. Five newly-listed Caribbean corals span the wider-Caribbean Sea including the U.S. jurisdictions of Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Elkhorn (Acropora palmata) and staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis) previously listed in 2006 remain listed as threatened.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:57:06 +0000