Health Status of Coral Reefs in Chabahar Bay, Iran

Status of Coral Reefs

There has been significant bleaching of hard and soft corals in widely separate parts of the world from mid-1997 to the last months of 1998. Much of this bleaching coincided with a large El Niño event, immediately switching over to a strong La Niña. Some of the reports by experienced observers are of unprecedented bleaching in places as widespread as (from west to east) the Middle East, East Af...

Essential Oils of a Soft Coral (Sinularia sp) from Chabahar Bay of Iran

The essential oil extracted from the soft coral of Sinularia sp. have been extracted by soxhlet and analyzed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC–MS). The principal compounds were found to be δ-Cadinene (12.4%), α-terpinene (10.7%) and α-Muurolene (8.3%). It is worth mentioning the presence of sesquiterpenes and diterpenes as main compounds of the essential oil. This is the fi...

Coral relocation in Chabahar Bay, the North-east of Oman Sea

Coral relocation in Chabahar Bay, the North-east of Oman Sea

7. Status of Southeast Asia Coral Reefs

Most of Southeast Asia’s coral reefs continue to remain under threat, mainly from anthropogenic impacts. Weak management capacity contributes to the further degradation of reefs, particularly from destructive and over-fishing. The lack of monitoring capacity in some areas adds to the difficulty of reaching more accurate assessments. Amid the general widespread trend of declining health are isol...