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Bahamas Protected Areas Fund Sounds the Alarm on Coral Killing Disease 

22 July 2026
This content originally appeared on ZNS BAHAMAS.

Press Release The Bahamas Protected Areas Fund (BPAF) is raising the alarm on Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD), a highly destructive coral disease that has already devastated reef-building coral populations in The Bahamas and continues to threaten reef ecosystems throughout the wider Caribbean. First detected in Florida in 2014, SCTLD has since spread rapidly […]