The Oceans: Habitats Being Destroyed Bit by Bit

by Grace & Rosie
Published March 28, 2025

Everyone needs help sometimes. Even the oceans. Oceans are a very important part of our world and our lives. They provide us food, medicine, and other resources. According to the website Just One Ocean, dried seahorses are used for Chinese medicine and have been for centuries. Some believe that they can cure asthma, skin infections, impotence, and other diseases as well. We as humans use these to help us heal, and we eat many types of fish that experienced deterioration too. Some of these fish have specs in them from deterioration in their bodies, and people in their everyday lives eat sea creatures as a daily meal. Molecules have chemicals in their bodies that are very healthy for humans so when humans eat certain types of fish they are getting the healthy chemicals that they need.   

Marine ecosystem deterioration is when ocean habitats are unable to support life for the organisms that live there. According to the website Habitat Destruction, marine ecosystem deterioration is “where the marine environment or a particular ecosystem degrades to a point where it is unable to support the animal and plant life that would usually reside there. This can be due to direct transformation, such as mining, dredging, construction or aquaculture.” Marine ecosystems are very important in our environment and if they cannot provide homes and food to the sea creatures that live there, they will all eventually die and there will be nothing left in our oceans.

Now you might be wondering, how does this affect our life? The United Nations says “Today, plastic accounts 

for 85% of marine litter, putting all marine life at serious risk.” also Marine Debris Impacts says “Marine debris can injure or kill marine and coastal wildlife; damage and degrade habitats; interfere with navigational safety; cause economic loss to fishing and maritime industries; degrade the quality of life in coastal communities; and threaten human health and safety.” Marine ecosystems are very important to marine life and land animals who drink from the ocean. 

There are multiple ways that you can help with this life-threatening situation. The National Ocean Service says that ways you can help include conserving water, reducing pollutants and waste, which you can do by not throwing as much trash away in the wrong place, using less energy, turning off your lights in your room every time you leave, and respecting the ocean’s habitats. The website Six Summertime Tips to Help Protect Marine Life includes some tips about how to protect the ocean and its habitats like “reporting injured, stranded, or entangled animals to authorized responders.” or watching for wildlife on the road. All of these are just a few of many great tips that there are to protect the oceans habitats from deterioration.  

The oceans are in danger, and they need help. These ways can help us keep the oceans clean and safe from deterioration. The oceans give us many basic survival needs or resources to help us daily. If we were without them, there would be a very high chance that we would have a hard time surviving as we do now. Help the oceans. When you help them, you're helping us. Ocean deterioration is a problem everywhere around the world.. Even picking up one small piece of plastic will change the odds of ocean deterioration. Remember, “A little bit goes a long way.”