The Coral Reef Alliance has abutting armament with Leisure Pro, the Internet's better scuba diving and snorkeling merchant, to accession acquaintance about the endangered accompaniment of our planet's apricot reefs.
San Francisco, CA -- The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) has abutting armament with Leisure Pro -- the Internet's better scuba diving and snorkeling merchant--to accession acquaintance about the endangered accompaniment of our planet's apricot reefs.
In acknowledgment of International Year of the Reef 2008, Leisure Pro is cartoon on its all-encompassing chump abject to brainwash the accessible about beach abolition and the means CORAL is alive to assure apricot reefs and the communities that depend on them.
Our affair about apricot beach accident has brought us a new acquaintance of the abuse acquired by beach angle feeding. By abeyance to advertise angle food, we will hopefully not alone abate accumulation but aswell accession alertness about the accident wrought. the apple is interconnected… business and the ambiance have to go duke in hand. CORAL's unique, mission-driven affiliation with Leisure Pro affords the befalling to ability breath humans who affliction acutely about the environment. CORAL was originally founded by amorous divers, and the dive association continues to be one of our key attention ally about the world. To abutment this aberrant affiliation and CORAL's Take a Bite out of Fish Feeding attack -- an accomplishment launched in Hawaii to annihilate beach angle agriculture -- Leisure Pro has agreed to stop affairs angle food. The convenance of agriculture angle can accept adverse accoutrement on apricot reefs by altering predator-prey relationships and blame aerial ecosystems out of balance. When humans augment algae grazers like surgeonfish, the angle ample up on angle aliment and eat beneath algae, causing the algae to curl and potentially asphyxiate the reef.
Leisure Pro's new reef-friendly action represents the aboriginal business on the U.S. acreage to abutment CORAL's acknowledged campaign. According to Leisure Pro CEO Phil Mendel, "Our affair about apricot beach accident has brought us a new acquaintance of the abuse acquired by beach angle feeding. By abeyance to advertise angle food, we will hopefully not alone abate accumulation but aswell accession alertness about the accident wrought."
An agog adherent of CORAL's work, Mendel believes "the apple is interconnected… business and the ambiance have to go duke in hand." CORAL Executive Director Brian Huse agrees, acquainted that "CORAL's unique, mission-driven affiliation with Leisure Pro affords the befalling to ability breath humans who affliction acutely about the environment. CORAL was originally founded by amorous divers, and the dive association continues to be one of our key attention ally about the world."
Leisure Pro barter can assurance up for CORAL's chargeless cyberbanking newsletter and accomplish a donation with anniversary online purchase. Shoppers who accord at atomic $10 will accept CORAL's 2009 agenda featuring beauteous underwater images donated by able and abecedarian photographers.
Find out added at www.coral.org or by calling 888-CORAL-REEF.
CORAL is the alone all-embracing alignment alive alone to save apricot reefs. It builds grassroots partnerships a allotment of bounded communities, government leaders, abyssal amusement operators, and abyssal esplanade managers to analyze and break attention challenges through education, training, and able administration of abyssal adequate areas.
Photo credits: School of yellowtailed surgeonfish (Prionurus laticlavius), Galapagos, by Doug Richardson; Beaked filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris), Fiji, by Doug Richardson.
Contacts:
Julie Bennett, Communications Manager, CORAL
(415) 834-0900 x319 or jbennett @ coral.org
Ben Teichberg, Master Instructor, Leisure Pro
(800) 637-6880 x2316 or angled @ leisurepro.com
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