1. Support reef-friendly businesses. Ask what your dive shop, boating store, tour operators, hotel, and other coastal businesses are doing to save the coral reefs. This is especially important in coastal areas with reefs. Let them know you are an informed consumer and care about reefs.

2. Don’t use chemically enhanced pesticides and fertilizers. Although you may live thousands of miles from a coral reef ecosystem, these products end up in the watershed and may ultimately impact the waters that support coral.

3. Volunteer for a reef cleanup. You don’t live near a coral reef? Then do what many people do with their vacations: visit a coral reef. Spend an afternoon enjoying the beauty of one of the world’s treasures while helping to preserve it for future generations.

4. Learn more about coral reefs. How many different species live in reefs? What new medicines have been discovered in reef organisms. Participate in training or educational programs that focus on reef ecology. When you further your own education, you can help others understand the fragility and value of the world’s coral reefs.

5. Become a member of your local aquarium or zoo. Ask what they are doing and what your donation can do toward saving the world’s coral reefs. The answer may pleasantly surprise you.

6. When you visit a coral reef, help keep it healthy by respecting all local guidelines, recommendations, regulations, and customs. Ask local authorities or your dive shop how to protect the reef.

7. Support conservation organizations. Many of them have coral reef programs, and your much-needed monetary support will make a big difference.

8. Spread the word. Remember your own excitement at learning how important the planet’s coral reefs are to us and the intricate global ecosystem. Sharing this excitement gets everyone you speak with involved.

9. Be an informed consumer. Consider carefully the coral objects that you buy for your coffee table. Ask the store owner or manager from what country the coral is taken and whether or not that country has a management plan to insure that the harvest was legal and sustainable over time.

10. Don’t pollute. Never put garbage or human waste in the water. Don’t leave trash on the beach.

11. Recycle. This is the first step each of us can take to make a change. Recycle anything and everything. If your community doesn’t have a program, do it anyway, and get one started.

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Reef saving effort

A national effort launched today to save the world’s dying and threatened coral reefs focuses on Hawaii, which has 84 percent of all coral reefs in the United States.

Adding other Pacific coral reefs makes a total of 94 percent of all U.S. reefs in Hawaii and the Pacific, said Jim Maragos, U.S. Fish and National Wildlife Service coral reef biologist for the Pacific area.

A National Action Plan by the U.S. Coral Task Force calls for setting aside 20 percent of all U.S. coral reefs as ecological reserves by 2010. It also wants to map all U.S. reefs by 2009.

Global warming, which causes bleaching of reefs, is another big problem

The coral reef systems provide millions of jobs and billions of dollars each year in tourism. In Hawaii, gross  from just a single, half-square-mile coral reef reserve was  at more than $8.6 million a year.

I went to wonderful land Australia. I ride to a plane lots of time to land. When Breathe the air It was fresh and also little dry, also hot than seoul. It`s famous to animal kangeroo. I want to meet. And famous opera house and surf.  I went city sydney. It was clean and nor many cars and little diffint than seoul. lots of goft,museum, also at the city, thers little of animal. live in. colla. Australia people dont kill them, they give food to them Yes. I can imazine that peoples love animal and animal lots doll of animal. Australia food is hot and allmost of food is meat. And fish Its smell more smelly then korean food and they eat not hot thing. And they did not use spices. so Its more nature and can feel the nature food. The sause was more strong taste. Meat was more soft and more colorful. yum!!!! and I went to the opera house the consert was cheep. And it was beautiful. Its like a art. I think I have a good trip of Australia!!!

Kangeroo

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A reef is a coral community consisting of several thousand organisms living together. Although it looks like a dormant underwater bush, the reef is very much alive. Reefs grow very slowly over time. In fact, an inch of coral reef takes nearly 100 years to grow!

World wide, coral reefs cover 600,000 square miles and are home to over 500,000 species!

 White Shark EATING ME…!

The White Shark has a torpedo-shaped body, a pointed snout and large pectoral and first dorsal fins. It has a lunate tail, black eyes and large serrated teeth. It is grey or bronze above and white below.

White Sharks can grow to at least 6 m in length and weigh 3000 kg. Female matures at 4.5 m to 5 m in length. It is believed that a White Shark of 5 m to 6 m in length is likely to be 15 to 25 years old. However, the technique of aging sharks by examining growth rings in their vertebrae, is yet to be confirmed as accurate for this species.