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crease in forest fires has threatened this achievement. The fires are blamed on intense drought and high temperatures, electrical discharge, carelessness of poachers and fishermen, agricultural practices, and intentional sabotage. In addition, recent lower-than-expected levels of planted tree survival and increasing use of wood for cooking and heating have, together with the forest fires, contributed to jeopardize the success of the reforestation programme. This threat to thousands of hectares of forests and endangered tree species only worsens the state of the country's already declining forested areas. A total of 67.6 % of Cuba's forests are currently protected, while 32.4 % are commercially exploited.
Adapted from an Interpress Third World News Agency bulletin
Internet Briefs
Florida Marine Research Institute - Taxonomic List of Corals
The Florida Marine Research Institute has added to its web page a taxonomic list of the stony corals (with pictures) observed by the Coral Reef/Hardbottom Monitoring Project in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The list contains over 12,000 stony coral species record and is a digital version of the Coral Identification Guide used for training and Quality Control purposes. The page can be found at: http://www.fmri.usf.edu/coral/tax.htm.
For more information about the Project, check out Phil Dustan's page at:
http://www.cofc.edu/~coral/epawork.htm.
New Web Site for the Long-term Monitoring of
the Great Barrier Reef
The Australian Institute of Marine Science's Long-term Monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef Status Report 3, which was released as a printed document at the ITMEMS Conference in November 1998, is now accessible on the AIMS web page:
http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/reflib/mon-statrep3/statrep3.html
The report summarises information collected in six annual surveys of about 50 reefs spread across the Great Barrier Reef.
Coral Reef Reference Web Sites
For persons without access to large libraries and who have difficulty retrieving necessary materials, the internet is another avenue for research. Large bibliographies may be searched through
various web sites. For a reprint of a reference not available at the library, the reef researcher's directory on the CHAMP web site provides the addresses of several authors. The following is a list of web site provides the addresses of several authors. The following is a list of web sites for coral reef information:
http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/misc/coral/coralit.html
http://www.home.coqui.net/morelock/datareferences.html
http://www.cgiar.org/iclarm/resprg/reefbase
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