ICRI News

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ICRI News

• Agenda item 4.2
• ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter
• ICRI General MeetingOkinawa, Japan, 3-4th July
  2004
  

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ICRI News - background

• During the last ICRI General Meeting (TCI,
• November 2003), a small working group (A.
• Paterson, R. Baldi, F. Staub ) was formed to
• investigate the feasibility of producing an ICRI
• Newsletter.

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ICRI News

• ICRI News
• To be published quarterly with some special
  issues if needed.
  
• Send the table of contents by email and have the
  newsletter available in two formats (HTML and
  PDF) on the ICRIForum (www.icriforum.org).
  

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ICRI News

• The following table of contents was adopted
• ICRI Secretariat News
• A special feature
• Country report
• ICRIForum news
• Coral reef news / stories
• Upcoming events

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ICRI News

• The first ICRI News was released in March 2004
  (the special feature was on coral reef monitoring
  and the country report was from the Netherlands
  Antilles).
• The second was just released (June 2004) with a
  special feature on coral reef resilience and
  response bleaching, and a country report from
  Japan.

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ICRI News

• It was sent to all the ICRIForum Members, the
  Coral list, the Caribbean coral reefs mailing
  list, to the World Bank ICZM mailing list, to all
  the NOAA staff.
• Several partners web sites have linked to the
  ICRI newsletter such as ICRAN, ICRIN, IUCN.
  

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ICRI News - comments

• A lot of positive comments were received 
• This is a great product
• It was useful and informative
• Just viewed the Newsletter and have but one word
  for it Fabulous!
  
• This is certainly both informative and useful,
  and also nice to look at. Well done!
  
• Good job with the newsletter!

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ICRI News Action Requested

• Encourage ICRI Members to provide information for
  the ICRI Newsletter
  
• Encourage ICRI Members to help distribute the
  newsletter
  

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ICRI News

• If you have any items you would like to see
  included in the third edition, please send them
  to the ICRI Newsletter Team at
  newsletter_at_icriforum.org by August 27th.
• We would like to thank all the contributors and
  are looking forward to any comments, and/or
  suggestions.
  

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