Facts

The Destruction of Coral Reefs

Sustainability

Environmental Science: the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance:

Solutions

Facts

• Protected areas
• Ecological Education
• STOP the harm that is being done today

Coral Reefs are home to 25% of all marine life...

Marine Pollution

Impacts on Coral Reefs

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• Over Fishing
• Eutrophication
• Garbage disposal
• Toxic waste

Is the dying of coral reefs symptomatic of humanity's misunderstanding of an unsustainable life?

Land Ethic

• Need to have balance
• Once one exploits the resource isnt there for others
• Need to recognize the reefs as part of the community

Occupy about half the area of France

Coral Reef

Aldo Leopold

• Underwater structure
• calcium carbonate
• Rainforest of the Sea

• The need for a sustainable life
• The land pyramid
• Community

"The human role needs to change from ruler to regular"

• Fragile Ecosystems
• Shallow, warm water

photo credit Nasa / Goddard Space Flight Center / Reto Stöckli