Reef

• Oyster® , the global employment platform to hire, pay, and care for distributed teams, today launched Pearl, an AI-powered chatbot that can answer questions about global hiring and remote work regulations.
• Global hiring regulations are complex and ever-changing.
• “Oyster’s platform empowers users to leverage extensive knowledge and insights on global employment, compliance, and compensation,” said Margaret Wu, Lead Investor at Georgian, an Oyster investor.
• “It’s exciting to leverage AI alongside our insights in a chatbot that can help navigate the complexities of global and remote employment in a compliant, easy-to-use way.

• For the last 37 years, our organisation has monitored the health of the world’s largest reef.
• This lets us produce annual updates for the northern, central and southern regions of the Reef.
• That makes us perhaps the team best qualified to answer the question many people have – how is the Reef going?
• Last year, for instance, parts of the Reef experienced bleaching in the middle of La Niña – the first time that’s happened on record.

What’s happening on the Reef?

• It’s a widely used, robust indicator of reef health, but it doesn’t tell the whole story.
• We also collect detailed data on coral and fish populations, diversity, structural complexity, and abundance of juvenile corals.
• And we take digital photographs and convert them into 3D photogrammetry models so we can analyse what’s happening in more depth than ever before.
• Many reefs had a high proportion of Acropora corals, of which the best known are the staghorn and plate corals.

But what about recent heating?

• Some reefs continued to recover, but these were offset by others which lost coral.
• While the recovery we reported last year was welcome news, there are challenges ahead.
• If we get mass bleaching like 2016 – or even worse – it could undo all the recent recovery.
• Daniela Ceccarelli works for the Australian Institute of Marine Science which receives funding from the Australian Government to conduct the Long-Term Monitoring Program.

• "The Loren Hotels and Residences brings the elements of luxury living to those seeking a seamless blend of architecture and nature.
• The Loren at Turtle Cove is a significant next step in our brand expansion as we continue to identify and secure future project sites," said Stephen King, Founder and CEO of The Loren Hotel Group.
• The Loren at Turtle Cove is located within a five minute drive of the Providenciales airport and steps from Smith's Reef and Babalua Beach.
• The Loren at Turtle Cove will participate in The Loren 2%

• BELIZE CITY, Belize, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As a bold yet playful call to action for World Oceans Day 2023, the Belize Tourism Board launched today a social media campaign "Reef With A Beef," aimed to raise awareness on ocean sustainability through humor.
• As a 10,000-year resident of the ocean, the Belize Barrier Reef is a natural spokesperson to represent the frustrations of those who see what's happening.
• The reef will call out anything and anyone who may be harming its habitat on a global scale.
• The Belize Barrier Reef is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the second largest barrier reef in the world.