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This underwater photograph shows a part of a coral garden conserved by the local community whose sustained efforts to monitor and protect the reef around the Wasini-Mkwiro have helped the island become a world-renowned eco-tourism destination in Wasini island on June 14, 2026. In the crystalline waters off Kenya's coast, coral reefs are thriving, evidence of a rare good news story in the battle to protect oceans from the ravages of climate change.
A new study presented at the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa on June 16, 2026 finds that 166,000 square kilometres of the world's coral reefs, around a third of the total, are particularly "climate-resilient", meaning they have the potential to survive through major ocean warming events.
Action is still needed to help those reefs recover from increasingly frequent bleaching events. Down the coast from Mombasa, on Kenya's paradisical Wasini-Mkwiro island, villagers are showing the way. (Photo by Tony KARUMBA / AFP)
foto Tony Karumba
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