JAPARATINGA, Brazil - Brazil is bracing for what may be its worst-ever coral bleaching event as extremely warm waters damage reefs in the country's largest marine reserve – threatening the region's tourism and fishing revenues.
Reef tourism generates an estimated 908 million reais each year for Maragogi and the nearby municipalities of Ipojuca and Sao Miguel dos Milagres, according to the conservation charity Boticario Group Foundation.Thousands of people in the region also work in small-scale fishing, virtually the only economic alternative to tourism, said Claudio Sampaio, who teaches fishing engineering at the Federal University of Alagoas.
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