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1. Avoid purchasing souvenirs from coral or any threatened or endangered species.
2. Support the establishment of coral reef protected areas and encourge better protection and management for those exist.
3. While traveling, choose resorts and tour operators that properly treat all sewage and wastewater.
4. While operating a boat, navigate carefully to avoid contact with coral reefs and other vulnerable ecosystems such as seagrass beds and maintain engine equipment to prevent oil and gas spills.
5. As a diver or snorkeler, choose tour operators that use mooring bouys or drift diving techniques whenever possible rather than anchors that can cause reef damage.
6. Make wise choices in selecting seafood by avoiding menue items that are caught or farmed using destructive or unsustainble practices including reef-killing poisons, explosives and illegal equipment.
7. Avoid purchasing tropical wood furniture or products obtained from clear-cut tropical forests causing siltation damaged to coral reefs.
8. As a diver, practice buoyancy control skills in a pool or sandy area before diving near a coral reef. Make sure your gauges and equipment are secured to avoid accidental contact with the reef and never touch, stand on or collect coral. Be an AWARE diver.
9. Report all damage of coral reefs to dive operators, scientific or conservation groups that monitor coral reef health.
10. Enroll in an AWARE Specialty Course with a PADI professional to increase your knowledge about coral reefs and other aquatic environments. (Project AWARE Specialty, Underwater Naturalist, AWARE-Fish Identification, Peak Perforormance Buoyancy and AWARE-Coral Reef Conservation.)
Project AWARE Foundation partners with divers and volunteers around the world to help conserve fragile coral reefs ecosystems. Join Project AWARE to support conservation initiatives.www.projectaware.org
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