“The common Guppy‚ is also known as the millionfish‚ mosquito fish‚ or rainbow fish by tropical fish keeping enthusiasts. They are a highly adaptable species that can survive and even thrive in environments that many other tropical fish species would be unable to tolerate.” (The “Un” Common Guppy) The guppy is one of the world’s most widely distributed tropical fish‚ and one of the fish that is most commonly chosen first to be taken home from the store. It is a freshwater aquarium species. Guppies
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Loggerheads also modify habitats as a result of their foraging activities. The fragments of hard-shelled organisms that loggerheads consume are either discarded or ingested and later deposited with feces at a different location. By reducing the particle size of the shells‚ loggerhead turtles contribute to nutrient recycling in benthic ecosystems by increasing the rate of shell disintegration. Additionally‚ a foraging behavior called infaunal mining has a significant effect on substrate characteristics
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industry‚ tourism has its downside. Negative effects caused by tourism industry can be very costly to the country and its population. For the island of Jamaica as well as other islands‚ the effects include pollution animal and plant extinction‚ coral
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(Endangered Species International [ESI]‚2011) Dynamite fishing (homemade bomb) is set off under water to kill fish for easy collection. Dynamite fishing has contributed to massive destruction of Southeast Asian coral reefs over the past 20 years. Large blasted areas are very slow to recover because corals have difficulty establishing on loose or sandy substrate. In southern Philippines‚ between Malaysia (Borneo) and Philippines (Palawan) illegal dynamite fishing is still a common practice. The area between
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MURO- AMI Muro-Ami Fishing‚ otherwise known as reef-hunting‚ is one of the cruelest‚ most cataclysmic forms of illegal fishing that destroys the coral reefs and exploits children. This practice consequently destroys corals which take whole lifetimes to form and causes the deaths of some of these unfortunate children. For casualties ensuing from these practices (either a kid gets caught in the big net that they use‚ or the bomb explodes before the children assigned to handle the bomb could leave
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survive and extinct from the world. The dinosaur were once the dominant groups among the species‚ after they were gone there will be new dominant groups rise and replace them after a certain period. Question 2 Why are reefs so important? Many US coral reefs exist before the European colonized the nearby
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CORAL DIVERS RESORT Business Description Coral Divers Resort (Coral) is acting since 10 years on the niche industry of a rapidly growing sport scuba diving in the island of New Providence in the Bahamas. The company belongs to Jonathan Greywell family’s who found this niche by creating short weekend and midweek diving ventures‚ a service that intrigued the public‚ both single and families. Coral Divers Resort has targeted the aficionado diver‚ and the tyro‚ both of which want maximum diving pleasure
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fishing is the practice of using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection. This often illegal practice can be extremely destructive to the surrounding ecosystem‚ as the explosion often destroys the underlying habitat (such as coral reefs) that supports the fish. The frequently improvised nature of the explosives used also means danger for the fishermen as well‚ with accidents and injuries. Dynamite fishing or blast fishing is the use of bombs to kill or hurt lots of fish at
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possibility to support a larger population. Australia’s population density is relatively low compared to other countries‚ with 3.1 people per square kilometer. The Great Barrier Reef is located in the Coral Sea‚ off the coast of Queensland‚ Australia. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system‚ composed of over 2900
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Bellamar Caves are a National Monument that is located in Matanzas‚ Cuba‚ they are a set of cave with more than 23 kilometers of galleries. By the beauty of its gallery and caves‚ they were declared a National Monument. The galleries and passages of the cave started forming about 300 thousand years ago. According to the studies the caves were originally under the sea‚ part of the bat of Matanzas. While they were under sea level‚ these caves were full of water. The tectonic movements caused the area
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