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Land Based Activities Are Harming Coral Reefs

"Often remote from reefs, deforestation, urban development and intensive agriculture are now producing vast quantities of sediments and pollutants which are pouring into the sea and rapidly degrading coral reefs in close proximity to many shores," said Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nationa Environment Program

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