In June of 2011, scientists on the Global Reef Expedition set out to assess the community structure, status, health, and resilience of coral reefs off St. Kitts and Nevis. This scientific report summarizes our findings from that mission. This report has been shared with government officials and conservation organizations to help them preserve and protect coral reefs in the region.
The research summarized in this report comes from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation's Global Reef Expedition, a large-scale scientific research mission which nearly circumnavigated the globe studying the health and resiliency of some of the most remote coral reefs on Earth. The primary goals of the expedition were to map and characterize coral reef ecosystems, identify their current status and major threats, and examine factors that enhance their ability to survive—and recover from—major disturbance events.
