You should try to help the Corals!

Monday, August 11, 2008

Biologists around the world have predicted the future and their message could not be clearer.
Coral reefs are the foundation, the support of marine life, and thus a extremely crucial support for human life, yet all over the world humans are destroying them, killing them at a disastrous rate. Already 10 percent of the total population of coral reefs are lost and scientists are predicting that 70 percent more of the population will be lost in 20 to 40 years time unless people doing what their doing. Examples are Pollution, Sewage, Erosion, Cyanide Fishing, Clumsy Tourism,Etc. But there is still hope as reefs are resilient and they bounce back quickly when protected.

It's protection that is vital, and it's ordinary people who are making it happen. Government efforts in much of the world with all due respect have been frankly pathetic, late, weak, underfunded and unenforced. Persian Gulf oil states pass toothless pollution laws then ignore them. Indian Ocean poachers outwit and outnumber British Royal Navy patrols. Ecuador stalls for decades while tourism explodes in the delicate Galapagos, only to relentless destruction of coral reefs. In those bright where people are changing the way they treat the reefs, you'll find fishermen, students, divers, biologists, concerned citizens of all stripes transformed into activists and volunteers, taking matters into their own hands to protect the coral reefs that are dear to them and vital to us all on earth.

It was Key West dive operators who launched Reef Relief to keep ship anchors off Florida's dying reefs. It was a lone Pacific Islands environmental consultant who crusaded to restore the giant clam to Tonga's depleted reefs. And it was a passel of marine scientists, alarmed by their findings as frustrated with the government inaction, who launched last year's International Year Of The Reef, a global research and education program to spur coral conservation efforts and reverse the trend of destruction. Their call to action has made a difference: Conservationists and governments worldwide made launched the International Coral Reef Initiative in 1997, and the United Nations followed their lead and declared 1998 the International Coral Of The Reef Ocean.

I hope this piece of information from MotherJones.com rephrased by me would encourage or inspire you to help in the restoration of our once beautiful pollution-free world.

Corals will die if we do not stop the pollution. --- Try your best to save them!
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