WHAT IS ICRI?

The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) is a partnership among nations and organizations seeking to conserve coral reefs and related ecosystems worldwide. Founded by eight governments - Australia, France, Japan, Jamaica, the Philippines, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States of America - the ICRI was announced at the First Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in December 1994, and at the high level segment of the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development Intersessional Meeting in April 1995. Since then, the ICRI has come to encompass the participation of additional partners from governments, United Nations organizations, multilateral development banks, environmental and developmental NGOs and the private sector.

ICRI has developed a Call to Action and a Framework for Action designed to provide the basis for regional cooperation and to catalyze the development of national coral reef initiatives. They give visibility to the ICRI's goal of ecosystem and community -based management.

Visit the ICRI web site