Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — A group of countries from Southeast Asia and the Pacific came together at the Rio+20 Summit this week to showcase their collective efforts to save the Coral Triangle, one of the most biologically diverse and ecologically rich marine regions on Earth.

At a high-level side event hosted by the Government of Indonesia, the Coral Triangle countries renewed their commitment to the multi-country partnership Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF).

Source: The Australian
Date: June 22, 2012

The six Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) member states have developed a policy framework to address transboundary fisheries issues such as illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, live reef fish trade, overfishing, and bycatch of protected and endangered species. The common policy framework, developed through a series of regional exchanges supported by USAID’s US CTI Support Program, was finalized at a workshop held on May 22–25, 2012, in Putrajaya, Malaysia.

Shared Oceans, Shared Responsibilities: Reflections on World Oceans Day and Coral Triangle Day
By Suseno Sukoyono, Executive Chairman, CTI-CFF Interim Regional Secretariat