Nature’s Close-up: The Coral Triangle
Apr 16th, 2010 by wwftravel
- Soft corals covering a natural reef arch, Papua New Guinea. © Jürgen Freund / WWF-Canon
Covering nearly 2.3 million square miles of ocean across all, or parts of, the seas of six countries in the Indo-Pacific—Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste—the Coral Triangle is a myriad of life forms and lifestyles.
This vast area of the Indo-Pacific region harbors 75 percent of all known coral species, more than half of the world’s reefs, 40 percent of the world’s coral reef fish species, and six of the world’s seven species of marine turtle.
WWF is working to ensure that this world center of marine bio-diversity remains vibrant and healthy, providing food and livelihoods for generations to come.
View WWF’s Coral Triangle slideshow.
Visit the Coral Triangle with WWF:
Snorkeling the Raja Ampat Archipelago, October 12-25, 2010
Papua New Guinea to Bali, December 2-20, 2010
