{"id":4662,"date":"2025-12-09T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:38:15","slug":"gcrmn-issues-status-and-trends-of-caribbean-coral-reefs-1970-2024-9dec-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/2025\/12\/09\/gcrmn-issues-status-and-trends-of-caribbean-coral-reefs-1970-2024-9dec-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"GCRMN issues &#8220;Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970-2024&#8221; 9Dec 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-09-at-12.35.56\u202fPM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4663\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-09-at-12.35.56\u202fPM-209x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-09-at-12.35.56\u202fPM-209x300.png 209w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-09-at-12.35.56\u202fPM-768x1104.png 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-09-at-12.35.56\u202fPM-712x1024.png 712w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-09-at-12.35.56\u202fPM.png 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;<em><strong>9<sup>th<\/sup> December 2025, Wider Caribbean Region<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 Coral cover in the Caribbean has declined by 48% since 1980 while macroalgae cover has risen 85% in the same time, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/gcrmn.net\/caribbean-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a major new report<\/a> by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCMRN). The GCMRN, an operational network of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icriforum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI)<\/span><\/a>, found that these changes are largely driven by climate change-induced heat stress, overfishing, and diseases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gcrmn.net\/2025\/12\/09\/caribbean-2025-report\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;9th December 2025, Wider Caribbean Region \u2013 Coral cover in the Caribbean has declined by 48% since 1980 while macroalgae cover has risen 85% in the same time, according to a major new report by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/2025\/12\/09\/gcrmn-issues-status-and-trends-of-caribbean-coral-reefs-1970-2024-9dec-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,11,20,15,12,6,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbados","category-exotic-species","category-extreme-warming-coral-bleaching","category-extreme-weather","category-hurricanes","category-invasive-species","category-reef-health","category-reef-restoration","category-sctld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4664,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}