Mote Marine Lab Scientists are working together to restore over a million coral reefs in Florida and the Caribbean. Coral reef systems help protect shoreline and coastal communities and create healthy oceans for all organisms that depend on them. Ocean acidification, overfishing, oil spills, increasing ocean temperatures (due to global warming), and other factors including waste water has damaged and/or declined reefs around the world. Coral reefs in Florida and the Caribbean have declined by 50 to 80% in the past three decades. The scientists have officially launched a one year planning and preparation period, in which they will grow 50,000 coral fragments later to grow into reefs.
For the past years scientists have been warning us of global changes. Most governmental officials thought that it was just theories, but today scientists and environmental groups have been taking more drastic measures due to the fact that over the course of the years pollution and global warming have been getting worse. The reefs is just one part of the earth people are trying to save after years of neglect. New technology is being used and created to help fit our needs without destroying the earth with it. I'm glad to see that people have been taking measures. Hopefully we can fix a bit of damage we caused.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160912173953.htm
I really think that the few coral reefs that still are here should be kept clean and should not be destroyed and hopefully we can fix what damage we have done.
ReplyDeleteCoral reefs are such a beautiful part of nature. We need to restore them, asap.
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