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What´s happening
What´s happening
Have you ever wondered how you could help the coral reefs? Well this is the page for you that has all the information that you can use to help by volunteering and even helping at your home your Community and more! Our coral should survive but since climate change is rising and pollution is lingering in the ocean, our coral population is dying and they could go extinct!
Coral Bleaching
As you can see, this is a diagram of what happens, corals can still survive from bleaching, even though they can survive, over 50 percent of corals have died from coral bleaching from the last 30 years and they are expecting 90 percent of corals die in a century if we don´t do something. We need to try to reduce the fossil fuel cause it's making more bleaching corals. Climate change is changing / killing a lot of things including corals and to stop climate change you need to stop fossil fuel.
To Learn More Go to: coral bleaching tab.
Following: these 5 steps to help, Swap your furnace for a heat pump, replace your gas water heater, trade your gas stove for an induction stove, replace your gas fireplace with an electric fireplace. You can also use less fossil fuel and change the light bulb into a longer lasting florescent bulb or limiting the use of air conditioning.
Pollution, overfishing, destructive fishing practices using dynamite or cyanide, collecting live corals for the aquarium market, mining coral for building materials, and a warming climate are some of the many ways that people damage reefs all around the world every day. This is from people all over the world who do harm to the corals. Sunscreen, is from coral mostly, which you shouldn't use that much or else you will keep reducing coral. Sunbeams can hurt coral too. Scientists have known for some time that oxybenzone, an organic compound found in many sunscreens, can damage corals. As a result, sunscreens with this compound have been banned in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Hawaii, the island nation of Palau, and Bonaire, an island municipality of the Netherlands, among other places. The use of coral for sunscreen can be used in other countries such as the tropical islands.
A fish can harm corals
Maybe you don´t know this but there is also a type of fish that can harm coral which is Lionfish! Lionfish (fish that have spikes and which are toxic), spread stress on the coral, so eventually, they will start to get sick and then will die. when a group starts to form, Lionfish can kill lots of coral and the population is starting to grow. Eventually, all the coral will get affected by these creatures and Lionfish are starting to spread all over the world. Lionfish culling is most intense at shallow reefs, for shallow reefs they go about from 0-30 meters and for mesophotic reef Lionfish will go about 30-150 meters deep. Plus Lionfish make more problems than you think.
Here are 8 simple steps to help.
1, you could eat´em.
2, join a Lionfish derby.
3, become a Lionfish reporter.
4, don´t feed sharks.
5, don´t free your pets/animals.
6, donate to coral reefs.
7, spread the word.
8 You can help by harvesting Lionfish colonies.
There are 8 easy steps you can do to help coral reefs.
Marine debris
Marine debris can be harmful to coral reefs. Recycle your trash at home and on the go (especially plastic), and remember the three R’s (reduce, reuse, and recycle). When disposing of trash, do it properly in bins, to avoid trash being blown or washed away into waterways and oceans. On beaches, make sure you leave no trash behind, and never throw or leave any cigarette in the sand. You can help keep your rivers and streams clean by volunteering to pick up trash in your community. Check with your local environmental organizations for annual trash clean ups and make sure to check the annual International Coastal Cleanup.
Save Electricity
Save Electricity
No corals, wouldn´t that be bad? You can still save corals! Use renewable energy to help the environment and for the corals! Healthier life. Our earth is developing more fossil fuels and our coral will start facing threats from greenhouse gasses to oil littering. we should waste fossil fuels but we can't because it is bad for the environment.
Good transport
Good transport
Instead of driving a car (gas), try to walk, bike, or use public transport (like buses and trains) more often. If you are planning to buy a car, choose a fuel-efficient vehicle like a hybrid or electric car. Using these cleaner transportation methods can help reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses that are emitted into the atmosphere. These emissions contribute to ocean acidification and increased ocean temperature. More acidic ocean waters impede coral growth and warmer waters cause coral bleaching.
Clean water
Clean water
If you didn't know clean water can help the coral reefs survive because the clean water filters the corals and When sediment and other pollutants go in the water, they smother the coral reefs, time growth of damaging the algae, and lower water
10 ways to protect corals
To save coral, stop using the recycle as trash, and don't use fuel minerals and plastic. Use furnaces that can be electric, led light bulbs, and use solar, and hydro to power your house. this can save the corals in every way, so when they're bleached they can be saved so they won't die.
Last Reminders
We suggest you to do is to spread the word to friends and family and help, spreading the word can help cause more and more people to realize what´s happening and that corals are dying which is bad, so you can show your friends and family this to help the coral reefs and the whole corals community. Coral helps us survive from natural disasters which are tsunamis! Not only food, but also tsunamis? Help our coral, your not just helping coral, your also helping us, so we can help everybody!
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