Coral bleaching and mortality: Assessment of the extent of damage, socio-economic effects, mitigation and recovery.

CORDIO is a collaborative program involving researchers in 11 countries in the central and western Indian Ocean. CORDIO was created in 1999 to assess the widespread degradation of the coral reefs throughout the region. Gradually much of the research is focusing on mitigation of damage to reefs and on alternative livelihoods for people dependant on reefs that are being degraded due to climate change and other stress factors.

CORDIO is an operational program under ICRI (International Coral Reef Initiative). CORDIO is supported by Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency), the Government of Finland, the Dutch Trust Fund of the World Bank, WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) and IUCN (World Conservation Union).