forests‚ coastlines‚ inland waters‚ shrub lands‚ dry lands‚ deserts‚ agricultural lands‚ and other ecosystems vital to human health and welfare. The forest provides food‚ shelter and other needs for many terrestrial animals. Coastlines having suitable coral sites for extensive breeding of marine lives and mystical mountain rivers provide fresh drinkable water for terrestrial animals and also nurturing soils along its bank for different plant species‚ micro-organisms and other complex stationary life on
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Deteriorating Great Barrier Reef Australian government officials in the last few years have been taking the protection of the Great Barrier Reef into their own hands. After creating an eye on the reef program‚ which specifically targeted the health of the Great Barrier Reef‚ scientists created algae killing bleach that would be applied to infected sections of the reef. Practices worked well until 2014 after a double dose of the bleach. After many tourist encounters with the reef a few individuals took
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cannot 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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world are the coral gardens of hikkaduwa.In the under water world nothing is as beautiful as this magical park. The Hikkaduwa coral reef is a typical shallow fringing reef with an average depth of around 5 metres.The coral reef reduces the coastal erosion and forms a natural breakwater The Foliaceous Montipora species dominate the coral reef. other corals are contained in the inshore areas of the reef in massive colonies. The Staghorn‚ elkhorn‚ cabbage‚ brain‚ table and star corals are all present
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One ecosystem at risk that has been studied is the coral reef; The Great Barrier Reef is located off the East coast of Northern Queensland. It stretches approximately 2300km from Papua New Guinea to Fraser Island. Overall the Great Barrier Reef system covers an area of over 348‚000km2 making a vast‚ very complex ecosystem. There is a long history of human activity and use on and of the Great Barrier Reef. Negative impacts on the Great Barrier Reef include climate change‚ oil spills‚ tourism‚ overfishing
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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 once
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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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Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster planci) are found on coral reefs in the tropics ranging from the Red Sea‚ the Indian and Pacific Oceans‚ and all the way to the Pacific coast of Panama. It plays a major role in the destruction of fast growing coral species. Scientists believe that this starfish has lived on the reefs for tens of thousands of years and when the populations of this echinoderm increase in number‚ they can seriously damage the coral reefs. The Crown of Thorns Starfish has 16 to 18 arms
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Imagine being a little kid‚ playing in the ocean. All the waves are crashing and you are jumping over them. Suddenly‚ you see a large amount of trash‚ beer bottles‚ plastic containers‚ and strings that hold all of it together. You remove the trash from the ocean and put it into a trashcan. By this small task‚ you have supported the sustainability of the ocean. “Sustainability is ensuring that critical social‚ economic‚ and ecological processes are maintained in a way so that both the short and long-term
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regardless of its legality. Three areas to examine are; the effect on the coral reefs or ocean floors‚ the effect on the marine life‚ and ways to prevent further damage. Indonesian fishermen have been destroying the off shore reefs for decades and is the largest area of concern. “Damage from bombs and other disruptions‚ like sedimentation‚ cyanide fishing‚ and coral mining‚ has severely degraded 70 percent of the nation ’s reefs and left only six percent in excellent condition” (Ryan‚ 2001). With the
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