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54 relations: Alcyonacea, Ambergris Caye, Atoll, Australia, Bacteria, Belize, Belize City, Biodiversity, Bottom trawling, Cancún, Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems Program, Cay, Caye Caulker, Caye Chapel, Charles Darwin, Coral bleaching, Coral reef, Global warming, Glover's Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Great Blue Hole, Green sea turtle, Half Moon Caye, Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Honduras, Hurricane Mitch, In Situ Conservation in India, Invertebrate, Jacques Cousteau, Lighthouse Reef, List of reefs, List of World Heritage in Danger, List of World Heritage Sites in the Americas, Long Caye, Marine pollution, Marine reserve, Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, Moho Caye, New Caledonia, New Caledonian barrier reef, Northern Caye, Remora, Riviera Maya, Sandbore Caye, Scuba diving, Snorkeling, South Water Caye Marine Reserve, St. George's Caye, Tobacco Caye, Turneffe Atoll, ..., West Indies, World Heritage Committee, World Heritage site, Yucatán Peninsula. Expand index (4 more) »
Alcyonacea
Alcyonacea, or soft corals, is an order of corals which do not produce calcium carbonate skeletons.
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Ambergris Caye
Ambergris Caye, pronounced, is the largest island of Belize, located northeast of the country in the Caribbean Sea.
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Atoll
An atoll, sometimes called a coral atoll, is a ring-shaped coral reef including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.
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Belize
Belize, formerly British Honduras, is an independent Commonwealth realm on the eastern coast of Central America.
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Belize City
Belize City is the largest city in Belize and was once the capital of the former British Honduras.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Bottom trawling
Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the sea floor.
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Cancún
Cancún is a city in southeastern Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.
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Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems Program
The Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems (CCRE) program began with a collaborative field project conceived by six National Museum of Natural History scientists during the early 1970s.
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Cay
A cay, also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef.
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Caye Caulker
Caye Caulker is a small limestone coral island off the coast of Belize in the Caribbean Sea measuring about (north to south) by less than (east to west).
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Caye Chapel
Caye Chapel is a small, privately owned island in Belize, north-northeast of Belize City and south of Caye Caulker.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Coral bleaching
Coral bleaching occurs when coral polyps expel algae that live inside their tissues.
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Coral reef
Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals.
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Global warming
Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.
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Glover's Reef
Glover's Reef is a partially submerged atoll located off the southern coast of Belize, approximately 45 kilometres from the mainland.
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Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.
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Great Blue Hole
The Great Blue Hole is a giant submarine sinkhole off the coast of Belize.
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Green sea turtle
The green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), also known as the green turtle, black (sea) turtle or Pacific green turtle, is a large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae.
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Half Moon Caye
Half Moon Caye is an island and natural monument of Belize located at the southeast corner of Lighthouse Reef Atoll.
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Hol Chan Marine Reserve
Hol Chan Marine Reserve is a marine reserve close to Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker, off the coast of Belize.
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Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America.
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Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch was the second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, causing over 11,000 fatalities in Central America, with over 7,000 occurring in Honduras alone due to the catastrophic flooding it wrought due to the slow motion of the storm.
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In Situ Conservation in India
In-situ conservation is the on-site conservation or the conservation of genetic resources in natural populations of plant or animal species, such as forest genetic resources in natural populations of Teagan species.
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.
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Jacques Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.
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Lighthouse Reef
Lighthouse Reef is an atoll in the Caribbean Sea, the easternmost part of the Belize Barrier Reef and one of its three atolls, the other two being Turneffe Atoll and Glover's Reef.
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List of reefs
This is an incomplete list of notable reefs.
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List of World Heritage in Danger
The List of World Heritage in Danger is compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) through the World Heritage Committee according to Article 11.4 of the World Heritage Convention,Full title: Convention concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage which was established in 1972 to designate and manage World Heritage Sites.
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List of World Heritage Sites in the Americas
The following are lists of World Heritage Sites in the Americas.
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Long Caye
Long Caye is a privately owned island off the coast of Belize.
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Marine pollution
Marine pollution occurs when harmful, or potentially harmful, effects result from the entry into the ocean of chemicals, particles, industrial, agricultural, and residential waste, noise, or the spread of invasive organisms.
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Marine reserve
A marine reserve is a type of marine protected area that has legal protection against fishing or development.
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Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), also popularly known as the Great Mayan Reef or Great Maya Reef, is a marine region that stretches over from Isla Contoy at the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula down to Belize, Guatemala and the Bay Islands of Honduras.
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Moho Caye
Moho Caye, known locally as Wild Orchid Caye, is an 8.38 acre island located in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Belize.
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New Caledonia
New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie)Previously known officially as the "Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies" (Territoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et dépendances), then simply as the "Territory of New Caledonia" (French: Territoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie), the official French name is now only Nouvelle-Calédonie (Organic Law of 19 March 1999, article 222 IV — see). The French courts often continue to use the appellation Territoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie.
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New Caledonian barrier reef
The New Caledonian barrier reef is located in New Caledonia in the South Pacific, and is the second-longest double-barrier coral reef in the world, after the Belize Barrier Reef.
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Northern Caye
Northern Caye is by far the largest island of the Lighthouse Reef Atoll off the coast of Belize.
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Remora
The remoras, sometimes called suckerfish, are a family (Echeneidae) of ray-finned fish in the order Perciformes.
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Riviera Maya
The Riviera Maya is a tourism and resort district in Mexico.
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Sandbore Caye
Sandbore Caye is a small island with an area of off the coast of Belize.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.
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Snorkeling
Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped breathing tube called a snorkel, and usually swimfins.
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South Water Caye Marine Reserve
South Water Caye Marine Reserve is the largest marine reserve in the Stann Creek district of Belize.
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St. George's Caye
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Tobacco Caye
Tobacco Caye is a tiny island in Belize, about east of Dangriga.
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Turneffe Atoll
Turneffe Atoll is located southeast of Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker, off the coast of Belize in Central America, from Belize City, is one of three atolls of the Belize Barrier Reef, besides Glover's Reef and Lighthouse Reef.
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West Indies
The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.
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World Heritage Committee
The World Heritage Committee selects the sites to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, monitors the state of conservation of the World Heritage properties, defines the use of the World Heritage Fund and allocates financial assistance upon requests from States Parties.
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World Heritage site
A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.
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Yucatán Peninsula
The Yucatán Peninsula (Península de Yucatán), in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel.
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Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belizean Barrier Reef.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize_Barrier_Reef
