Six Pacific countries have formed a partnership to protect the world's most biologically diverse marine area - known as the Amazon of the seas - from the destructive impacts of climate change, unsustainable fishing and land-based pollution, Indonesia announced yesterday.
The Coral Triangle Initiative will seek to conserve and better manage coral reefs, promote sustainable fishing and ensure food security in a 600m-hectare area stretching from central Indonesia to the Philippines in the north and the Solomon Islands in the east. The other three nations involved are East Timor, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.
