JSTOR Daily

Salt Marsh and Fringing Oyster Reef Transgression in a Shallow Temperate Estuary: Implications for Restoration, Conservation and Blue Carbon

Estuaries and Coasts, Vol. 40, No. 4 (JULY 2017), pp. 1013-1027 (15 pages) The importance of intertidal estuarine habitats, like salt marsh and oyster reef, has been well established, as has their ...
Egypt Independent

Egypt declares Red Sea’s Great Fringing Reef as a marine nature reserve

Egypt’s Minister of Local Development and Acting Minister of Environment, Manal Awad, announced on Thursday the issuance of Prime Ministerial Decree #4419 of 2025, declaring the entire Great Fringing ...
Hebdo Ahram

Egypt declares The Great Fringing Reef of the Egyptian Red Sea a protected area

Egypt’s Ministry of Local Development announced on Tuesday that the government has designated the Great Fringing Reef of the Egyptian Red Sea as a new marine protected area, following Prime ...
EurekAlert!

Damaged Fringing Reefs (IMAGE)

Fringing coral reefs in southern China previously provided valuable economic benefits to the communities, including fisheries, gleaning for seaweeds and invertebrates, and vital protection against ...
Nature

The Formation of Coral Reefs

CORAL reefs are divided into three classes, fringing, barrier and atoll. A fringing reef forms a terrace at the low tide level, extending out from the coast of any land, while a barrier reef is a ...