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BONDALEM, Indonesia - Indonesia n conservationist Nyoman Sugiarto has been working for 16 years to preserve coral on the reefs of Bali , but the frequency of mass coral bleaching s he says is now devastating.Ninety percent of the corals Sugiarto had nurtured on the reefs near his village in Bondalem, in northern shore of Bali , lost their colour last December."It was all white. We were shocked and of course, it also negatively affected the coral we planted.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said more than 54% of the reef areas in the world's oceans are experiencing bleaching-level heat stress, the fourth global bleaching event in the last three decades.Indonesia has roughly 5.1 million hectares of coral reefs and accounts for 18% of the world's total, data from the country's tourism ministry showed.
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