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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondent stumbles onto poachers tearing reef apart

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has witnessed Chinese fishermen systematically destroying coral reefs in the South China Sea. He tells us how he came across the destruction, near a group of Philippine-controlled atolls in the Spratly Islands, and how what he saw left him shocked and confused.

(Photo: Millions of smashed fragments of coral, resembling bits of bone. Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)

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