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ICOMOS begins assessing damage http:// www.asla.org/land/tsunami.html	While no one should lose sight of the human toll caused by the tsunami, there is undoubtedly an environmental and historical cost to the disaster as well. To assess this damage, the International Council of Monuments and Sites, with information provided by UNESCO, has begun to take inventory of South Asia’s historical and natural areas. According to the organization, the following sites have been affected: The Old Town of Galle, Mahabalipuram, The Sun Temple of Koranak, Ujung Kulon National Park, The tropical rainforest of Sumatra…
UNESCO offers tsunami assistance to countries in SouthAsia http:// portal.unesco.org/en/ev	UNESCO will undertake a study of the disaster’s impact on the biosphere and examine ways in which man-made environmental damage, such as deforestation or the destruction of mangroves and coral reefs, may have aggravated the impact of the tsunami. The Organization’s existing programmes already provide the framework for these activities. The International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (ICG/ITSU), operated by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), is the only tsunami warning system anywhere. It has been seeking the support required to extend its activities to the Indian Ocean and other regions, and already last year recommended the development of a tsunami warning system for the Indian Ocean. An international tsunami warning system already exists to alert countries bordering the Pacific Ocean, where the vast majority of the world's underwater earthquakes take place and where major tsunamis have hit as recently as 1964. But there has been little urgency to match this in the Indian Ocean, which has not seen a vast tsunami for over a century. Important opportunities to rally support for the extension of early warning systems as well as natural disaster prevention and mitigation, including public awareness campaigns and education programmes, will arise next month at two major United Nations conferences.
Nature Conservancy experts begin to assess damaged marine and coastal resources http://nature.org/pressroom/press/press1725.html	As aid arrives to countries hit by the tsunami to provide much-needed food, shelter and medicine for the survivors, scientists are beginning to focus on the longer-term environmental damage that will affect the livelihoods of fishermen and coastal communities for years to come. The focus is on both the direct destruction to the coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, beaches and coastal wetlands, and the contamination from run-off, pollution and sedimentation.
United Nations Environment Programme surveys ecological ravages of tsunami: coral reefs and mangrove swamps http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050103/full/050103-6.html	Coral reefs and mangrove swamps are vital feeding and breeding grounds for fish, so their destruction could cut local fishing and food supplies over the longer term, and leave coastlines more exposed to erosion and storm damage. The UNEP project will assess all these aspects and others, such as whether oil, chemical and other industrial plants along the coast might have spewed out pollution, and whether freshwater reservoirs have been contaminated by the seawater. The extent of environmental damage, and what needs to be done about it, will be discussed at two international meetings to be held later this month: members of the programme for Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) will meet in Mauritius; and the World Conference on Disaster Reduction will be held in Kobe, Japan
Earth Island Institute: Mangrove Action Project http://www.earthisland.org/map/index.htm	Mangrove Action Project Urgently Calls For Re-Establishment of a Mangrove Buffer Zone or “Greenbelt” along affected or threatened coastal zones to avert future such disasters
Newsdesk:Human dids caurse and worsen tsunami and its aftermath http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/000123.php	Some prominent scientists aver that:rising seas due to global warming accelerate coastal erosion, making tsunamis more destructive when they happen; destruction of mangrove swamps in tidal zones to make way for shrimp farms removes a natural barrier to ocean surges; coral reefs, which help break waves before they reach shore, have been decimated by pollution, poaching and changes in ocean temperature ;development along the coastlines -- everything from poor fishing villages to Western beach resorts -- make everything worse.
SEJ suggest many environmental issues raised by tsunami http://notes.sej.org	Almost any coastal area, especially low-lying and densely inhabited ones, is somewhat vulnerable to tsunami; A global network of warning system should be set up; There should be re-think on the strategy of shoreline development; global warming, mangrove devestation all contribute to tsumani which actually caused by human dids.

ICOMOS begins assessing damage

While no one should lose sight of the human toll caused by the tsunami, there is undoubtedly an environmental and historical cost to the disaster as well. To assess this damage, the International Council of Monuments and Sites, with information provided by UNESCO, has begun to take inventory of South Asia’s historical and natural areas. According to the organization, the following sites have been affected: The Old Town of Galle, Mahabalipuram, The Sun Temple of Koranak, Ujung Kulon National Park, The tropical rainforest of Sumatra…

UNESCO offers tsunami assistance to countries in SouthAsia

http:// portal.unesco.org/en/ev

UNESCO will undertake a study of the disaster’s impact on the biosphere and examine ways in which man-made environmental damage, such as deforestation or the destruction of mangroves and coral reefs, may have aggravated the impact of the tsunami.

The Organization’s existing programmes already provide the framework for these activities. The International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (ICG/ITSU), operated by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), is the only tsunami warning system anywhere. It has been seeking the support required to extend its activities to the Indian Ocean and other regions, and already last year recommended the development of a tsunami warning system for the Indian Ocean.

An international tsunami warning system already exists to alert countries bordering the Pacific Ocean, where the vast majority of the world's underwater earthquakes take place and where major tsunamis have hit as recently as 1964. But there has been little urgency to match this in the Indian Ocean, which has not seen a vast tsunami for over a century.

Important opportunities to rally support for the extension of early warning systems as well as natural disaster prevention and mitigation, including public awareness campaigns and education programmes, will arise next month at two major United Nations conferences.

Nature Conservancy experts begin to assess damaged marine and coastal resources

http://nature.org/pressroom/press/press1725.html

As aid arrives to countries hit by the tsunami to provide much-needed food, shelter and medicine for the survivors, scientists are beginning to focus on the longer-term environmental damage that will affect the livelihoods of fishermen and coastal communities for years to come. The focus is on both the direct destruction to the coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, beaches and coastal wetlands, and the contamination from run-off, pollution and sedimentation.

United Nations Environment Programme surveys ecological ravages of tsunami: coral reefs and mangrove swamps

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050103/full/050103-6.html

Coral reefs and mangrove swamps are vital feeding and breeding grounds for fish, so their destruction could cut local fishing and food supplies over the longer term, and leave coastlines more exposed to erosion and storm damage. The UNEP project will assess all these aspects and others, such as whether oil, chemical and other industrial plants along the coast might have spewed out pollution, and whether freshwater reservoirs have been contaminated by the seawater. The extent of environmental damage, and what needs to be done about it, will be discussed at two international meetings to be held later this month: members of the programme for Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) will meet in Mauritius; and the World Conference on Disaster Reduction will be held in Kobe, Japan

Earth Island Institute: Mangrove Action Project

http://www.earthisland.org/map/index.htm

Mangrove Action Project Urgently Calls For Re-Establishment of a Mangrove Buffer Zone or “Greenbelt” along affected or threatened coastal zones to avert future such disasters

Newsdesk:Human dids caurse and worsen tsunami and its aftermath

http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/000123.php

Some prominent scientists aver that:rising seas due to global warming accelerate coastal erosion, making tsunamis more destructive when they happen; destruction of mangrove swamps in tidal zones to make way for shrimp farms removes a natural barrier to ocean surges; coral reefs, which help break waves before they reach shore, have been decimated by pollution, poaching and changes in ocean temperature ;development along the coastlines -- everything from poor fishing villages to Western beach resorts -- make everything worse.

SEJ suggest many environmental issues raised by tsunami

http://notes.sej.org

Almost any coastal area, especially low-lying and densely inhabited ones, is somewhat vulnerable to tsunami; A global network of warning system should be set up; There should be re-think on the strategy of shoreline development; global warming, mangrove devestation all contribute to tsumani which actually caused by human dids.