Not sure if you guys have seen this or not...

[dmward99]

Follow the link address, I am sure none of us here engage in illegal fish or coral trading but something we can all look at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5114929/?GT1=10357

[BeltwayBandit]

I noticed that on the second coral there was a note stating that they expect to add more corals to the list next year. All the more reason for captive propagation.

[Guest Larry-T]

From yesterday's Washington Post:

Full story at:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7091202322.html

 

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Even in remote places, plants and animals are suffering from the onslaught of broader environmental forces such as climate change. Having completed its first comprehensive survey of Galapagos corals since the Red List started in the 1960s, IUCN experts identified a third of the native species as at risk of extinction. This year is the first time corals have been listed.

 

The group is surveying another 750 reef-building coral species in the Caribbean, the Indo-Pacific, the eastern tropical Pacific and southern Brazil, said Suzanne Livingstone, IUCN's global marine species assessment officer, who added that roughly a third of them might make it onto next year's list.

 

"There's probably going to be a similar trend over all corals, and that's largely because of climate change," she said.

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[yauger]

this hobby is gonna be crazy expensive soon.

[lmeyer]

this hobby is gonna be crazy expensive soon.

 

You mean it isn't already?

[treesprite]

You mean it isn't already?

 

seriously!

 

 

It seems to me that more reefers need to join their local clubs - that's the best way to keep cost down and keep from tearing up wild reefs.