The International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN) was set up by the founding partners (United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), WorldFish Center, World Resources Institute (WRI), UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC), Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) Secretariat, Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL)), as a public-private partnership to help implement the Framework for Action, the internationally agreed blueprint for conservation of coral reefs. The partnership draws on its partners’ investments in reef monitoring and management to create strategically linked actions across local, national and global scales. ICRAN is thus the first partnership to respond to conservation needs at the global scale by recognizing both traditional and scientific perspectives of coral reef dynamics and respective social dependency. It seeks to put financial mechanisms in place that support the translation of findings into direct on-the-ground action throughout the world’s major coral reef regions.
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