In 1993, an eminent team of scientists at the Australian Institute of Marine Science estimated that 10% of the world's coral reefs were already lost. Based on 1992 rates of destruction, those scientists also estimated that another 60% of the world's coral reefs would be lost in the following 20 to 40 years (Wilkinson, 1993). Almost 10 years have now elapsed since that cry of alarm for the future of coral reefs. The situation remains critical and urgent. In 1995, the International Coral Reef Initiative framers concluded that, without immediate action, 20 to 30% of the world's coral reefs could be lost by 2010 -- in just 10 years from now. In 1998, the Reefs At Risk Map-Based Indicator Study (Bryant et. al., 1998) was published by the World Resources Institute, in collaboration with the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Reefs at Risk projected site-specific threat levels for each of the world's coral reefs from coastal development, marine pollution, destructive fishing, and inland pollution and erosion. The Reefs at Risk study found 27% of the world's coral reefs at high risk of loss, with another 31% at medium risk. In the U.S. Atlantic and Caribbean, ALL coral reefs off Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands were found at high or medium risk of loss in the next 20 years. The same holds true in the U.S. Pacific for Hawaii, Guam, and the Northern Marianas. In the Caribbean, 29% of coral reefs are at high risk of loss, with another 32% at medium risk. In Southeast Asia, which includes the Phillipines, 56% of coral reefs are at high risk of loss. The Reefs at Risk study reaffirms earlier findings and confirms the need for conservation advocacy to prevent these irretrievable losses. Even giving this dire situation some benefit of the doubt, the next 20 years are do-or-die for a huge portion of the Earth's coral reefs. There is no time to lose if these forecasts for coral reef extinction are to be reversed. There's an immediate and urgent need for more -- much more -- coral reef conservation advocacy. So ReefKeeper must expand its efforts as the coral reef conservation advocacy organization. And we invite you to join us in our mission to protect coral reefs and their marine life.