Strengthen China's flood control

Abstract

June's International Coral Reef Symposium brought together more than 2,500 influential people who work on coral reefs, yet discussion centred on solving the global-scale issue of climate change, following a worldwide coral-bleaching event (Nature http://doi.org/bdmn; 2015). In our view, the symposium missed an important opportunity to develop real conservation outcomes for coral reefs at a local scale (see J. E. Cinner et al. Nature 535, 416–419; 2016).