Reef check's fast growing network played a major role in reports to preserve and sustain reef ecosystems. Reef check teams work with business sectors such as tourism diving, surfing and the marine aquarium trade. These teams developed mutually beneficial solutions including createing of self-funding marine protected areas. Reef check received international environmental acclaim for its work, and was named the United Nations's officual community based reef monitoring program. If you will visit our website www.reefcheck.org, clicking on the issues names it will take you to a detail fact sheet about the world. These fact sheets includes the causes for the impact and what actaions people can take to address the issues.