A study published in the journal Plos One has pointed out the importance of climate change in its direct impact on the biodiversity of the Coral Triangle, stressing the need to establish conservation measures for these areas to help species respond and adapt to these environmental changes.

The Coral Triangle is the region with the greatest marine biological diversity in the world, a biological richness that is due to several factors such as sea temperature, variety of habitats and their size. This is an area that covers the Philippines, the eastern part of Indonesia and Timor, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Old Dominion University, the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration participated in the study.

It is an area that faces various problems such as overfishing, pollution or climate change. The study has also included a large set of maps of the distribution of species, such as corals, crustaceans, coastal fish… as well as has established the request for the expansion of the area for its conservation of the Coral Triangle, thus including western Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore and the peninsular area of Malaysia.