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This policy analysis identifies threats to coral reefs, evaluates the effectiveness of the existing legal framework to address these threats and formulates recommendations to strengthen community-based natural resource management in Solomon Islands coral reefs of crucial importance for food security and rural livelihoods in the archipelago. Logging is a major yet often overlooked threat to coral reefs in the country. Large-scale logging operations cause massive erosion, which has a detrimental effect on water quality. The shipping accidents oil pollution and uncontrolled construction of log pond associated with the logging industry also have a significant impact on coastal ecosystems.

This document describes a protocol for monitoring the key aspects of coral bleaching events, which has been designed to be used by people with different levels of experience and varying levels of resources. It represents an important step towards more comprehensive analyses of bleaching events and the testing of hypotheses regarding the causes and impacts of bleaching.