Coral Reefs by Maggie Kilcullin
The coral reefs around the world serve many purposes in our ecosystem and our economy. Due to pollution, over fishing, global warming, and invasive species our coral reefs around the world are dying. We have already lost over 50% of the world’s coral. Coral reefs provide an essential ecosystem to over a fourth of all marine life in the ocean. Over half a billion people around the world rely on coral reefs for work and food.
Without reefs, billions of sea life species would suffer, millions of people would lose their most significant food source, and economies would take a major hit.
What would the world be like without coral reefs?
How would it mess up the ecosystem in the ocean?
http://wwf.panda.org/our_work/oceans/coasts/coral_reefs/
ReplyDeleteThe coral reefs are very important to us and the aquatic life in the oceans. We should work to preserve the reefs instead of destroying them.
ReplyDelete-Meeks
if we use it as a food source wouldn't that decrease it even faster?
ReplyDeleteIf we lose the coral reef we lose a ton of habitats for fish and it'll affect our sea life
ReplyDeleteCoral reefs provide a home to a lot of fish species, and without the coral these species will die off. The world could risk loosing thousands of species of fish if they let the reefs continue to die off.
ReplyDeleteCaroline Wilhelms
Whats the next step in this situation that we can do to protect the coral reefs? Will this actually make a change?
ReplyDeleteHumans are even effecting the coral reefs which are essential to the aquatic life. due to over fishing if humans would chose to do better things maybe this wouldnt be happening. Humans are very selfish and only think about them selfs.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how we can help the coral reef situation although we live in Missouri and these reefs have little effect on our lives. A lot of people probably don't realize the importance of the coral reefs. If we were more active in the community, it would help raise awareness about the state of the coral reefs.
ReplyDeleteIan He
Preserving our coral reefs is probably one of our most urgent problems because it effects a really large number of people. The rate that we are destroying the oceans coral reefs is only going to get faster. Even though we live in Missouri, I wonder how we could impact coral reefs in a positive way. -Olamide Ayeni
ReplyDeletecoral reefs provide a home for a lot of wildlife in the ocean, without it they'll die off and we'll loose a lot of species of fish
ReplyDeleteSammie Katz
If this trend continues to grow exponentially then in around 50 years people could completely destroy all coral reefs
ReplyDelete-Ray