The Coral Triangle

This is the best book on the coral triangle I know of, I'm very very very glad I have it. But it doesn't seem to capture the overwhelmingly bewildering diversity, vitality... what I would call ludicrous improbable insanity of the coral triangle I got from an (I think from memory) a 1/2 hour Animal Planet doco on it.... like being 'wasted' in Rio during Mardi Gras, truly seems like the most compelling, 'intoxicating' wild intensely beautiful mad place on earth. This book is an important, intelligent, responsible, valuable book but educational, sensible & sober in tone, could be complemented with some more unscrupulously seductive work that reflects the insane sexiness of the triangle if TV stuff I've seen is anything to go on. Perhaps it's harder to convey the nuttiness of the triangle with still photos than moving pictures, but still possible I'm sure.To be specific one thing that occurs to me is in the TV doco the Triangle came across as incredibly crowded & busy ( hence having the same hypnotic magnetism cities hold over people (perhaps unfortunately) , the photos in this book, excellent & totally professional as they are, tend to show a single species at a time without much going on around it, perhaps this is more honest & representative of the region but it is less captivating.

One of the most beautifully photographed and laid out books on the reefs in the coral triangle. Easy to read and informative about what can be done to protect the reefs.

I would rate this book not as a coffee table book just because it is that size. I purchased three copies, two of which went as gifts to young people who need to know about this important work by Ken Kassem. The pictures are very good, but what is written in the book is what really matters. Ken gives special case studies on how and what caring individuals and governments did, to protect or revive their reefs. This book can be used as a textbook too for there is that much serious areas discussed which students could study to expand on and try to put into action. I would like to think, and do hope, this book will be a tipping point for many readers to fully grasp the problems faced by the reefs as well as the positive solutions that have been successful to preserve and protect reefs and thus, making a giant step in ultimately saving the oceans. Terry Little, naval architect.

Extraordinarily interesting book with a wealth of information on the status and threats to coral reefs. Beautiful underwater and top side photography with some amazing pictures. A must-have for policy makers, NGO's, divers and anyone else interested in the status quo and concerned about the future of coral reefs in the cradle of underwater life on our planet.

The Coral Triangle: Saving the Amazing Undersea... Ken Kassem Solo quando lo si legge si capisce la qualità del libro della bellezza delle fotografie e dagli argomenti trattati.....Consigliatissimo!

Libro bellissimo con splendide foto , descrizioni delle isole e iniziative per salvare questi paradisi minacciati dall' uomo.E' un libro raro per me perchè non esiste un analogo in lingua italiana.Consigliato a chi ama la natura di questi paradisi oceanici e le barriere coralline