Coral Reefs in Danger!!!

From July 19 through July 27, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Ocean Foundation will conduct a coral reef survey in Bonaire where it has the healthiest coral reefs. The objective of this study is to reevaluate sites that were studied by the foundation before. It helps to manage decision and tools needed by resource managers. The Foundation will seek for the recovery of the reefs all around the world. They will recognize the sites that need protection and to raise the health and the recovery of the reefs. Bonaire has the healthiest reefs and since 1979 it was protected. Two diseases in the Caribbean have affected the health of the reefs. Those diseases are the yellow band disease and white plague. This new survey will help seek the problem and help improve the health of the reefs.

This relates to biology because it has to do with the life and recovery rate of the coral reeds. This is a part of marine biology meaning the study of ocean life forms. Coral reefs are part of the marine environment. It is home to many different species of fishes. Marine environment is bigger than the land environment.

This is important because without the coral reefs many different species of fish will die and some might even go extinct. The water environment has more life forms. It is the beginning of life. Life starts in the ocean. If the coral reefs are destroyed it is very hard to replace them. They grow about one centimeter each year. The reefs today is formed over thousands of years ago. So it is very important to protect the coral reefs.