A Small Chain Of 78 French Islands

Corals build colonies that secrete calcium carbonate to form ocean reefs. When they're healthy, coral reefs provide shelter and food for animals all along the food chain, including the top: us. Across the planet, half a billion people rely, directly and indirectly, on corals for their living. That's why what happens to the 9,000-year-old Great Barrier Reef, as well as to other reefs worldwide, is critical. The floods in Queensland have hurt the Great Barrier Reef by funnelling into the ocean vast plumes of freshwater and agricultural runoff that could severely damage the coral. Besides the extreme rain that sparked the floods, rising ocean temperatures, changes to the ocean's chemistry and the global trade in natural resources — all symptoms of our fossil-fuel economy — are waging a multiform war on the marine

Coral bleaching is a somewhat recent phenomenon that has prompted many communities and countries around the world to enact policies and legislation that deal with their dying coral reefs. In early 1998, a mass coral bleaching event took place on the Australian Great Barrier Reef, and broad scale aerial surveys confirmed that most of the inland reefs had experienced at least some bleaching (Lally 1999). The following analysis of the Great Barrier Reef will illustrate that a successful policy process must incorporate the people who live, work, and depend on the fragile environment into the decision-making about

Australia is in debt to The Great Barrier Reef as it has brought economic and environmental stability not just to Australia, but the World, from a business and ethical standpoint everyone must put an end in this growing issue.

Tourism in Australia has evolved over the years and continues to increase to this day, however it is the effects that tourists have the ability to place on the Southern Great Barrier Reef which are potentially threatening for, not only the reef of lady Elliot Island, however, the corals surrounding it. “International visitations within Australia alone reached 3.9 million visitors within the first 7 months of 2014, which was an increase of approximately 9.5%, a number which continues to rise” (Tourism Australia, 2015). However, with this increasing number, comes possible damaging effects to the surrounding reefs of Lady Elliot Island, possibly leading to the excessive damage of corals due to activities and infrastructure requirements

Australia is in debt, as the reef itself have brought economic and environmental stability. The Reef at port douglas

Because the GBR is such a highly visited tourist attraction for snorkeling and diving, there has been a large number of human structures that have been built in natural areas. Every five years, the Australian government publishes an Outlook Report that examines the Great Barrier Reef’s health, pressures, and likely future. “The report is required under Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 (section 54) and aims to provide a regular and reliable means of assessing reef health and management in an accountable and transparent way.” The report shows the actions that have been taken since 2009, including the focus on improving the quality of water that runs off the land. The increased freshwater run-off is in direct relation to the coastal development that has occurred since the major bleaching events have begun. The report released in 2009, states that the greatest risks to the Reef are still climate change, land-based runoff, coastal development, and some remaining impacts of fishing and illegal fishing and poaching. The report points out climate change as being the main cause of the destruction or bleaching of the reef (Department of Environment and Energy 2017). Most observers conclude that the climate change is a direct result of human

The Great Barrier Reef is under threat due to many human impacts and natural impacts. These impacts lead to other consequences that may harm our society as well. For example, if the Great Barrier Reef was to be damaged by pollution, tourism levels would decrease, which can lead to a drop in the economic stance of Australia. For these reasons, it is important to keep our ecosystems safe and protected. Some of the human impacts towards the Great Barrier Reef include:

In summary, in order to save the future of the Barrier Reef “we need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and we need to make policies to protect the Barrier Reef. We also need shift away from power sources like different coal products.” The products that most people are using to this day pollute the air and slowly and slowly and damage the different types of reefs around the world; and we need to switch to renewable energy, because it is not as harsh to the environment as other products. If we do this we can save the Future of the Barrier Reef, Fringing reef, and the Atoll reef and all of the other reefs around the world.

Every summer night on Tangier Island was filled with delicious food, amazing music, and energetic friends. The night started with pizza and root beer floats at a restaurant called Four Brothers. After a couple hours of talking and eating, we would walk around the tiny island listening to the song “Apple Bottom Jeans” and dancing like nobody was watching. Finally, the night ended after a few laps around the island on my best friend’s moped. No matter how many years have gone by, the exciting memories of summers on Tangier Island will stick with me forever. However, Tangier Island is much more than just my childhood memories. This disappearing, isolated island of Tangier has its own fascinating history and unique

Coral reefs around the world are in danger. One of the causes is global warming, which has been increasing the temperature of the ocean water resulting in coral bleaching. This essay will focus on damage occurring to the Great Barrier Reef.

In conclusion, companies like “The Great White Fleet”, threaten the land of low income island dwellers who have no proof of ownership of the land, though they have lived on it for years. They are threatened not due to them trespassing on the land, or similar, but just the greed of the companies and of the rich to own prime oceanfront real estate, at any cost. This lust for the coastline, and other prime spots inhabited by natives, needs to stop, because if it continues, our world will only grow more tainted, alongside

According to ethnographers who studied the pacific there are two contrasting groups of people. “On the one hand there was the view of "soft primitivism" which was represented "by the Tahitians and Hawaiians. Life was portrayed as being easy, and people were pure and guileless. Their lives were filled with pleasure and uninhibited sex. On the other hand, there was "hard primitivism” (Kiste, 1985, pg. 3). It was represented by people who lived in harsher climates which made them much tougher. The Melanesian peoples represented this notion to an extent. They practiced magic, sorcery, headhunting and cannibalism and Europeans found them very difficult to communicate with “They supposedly did not need or want all of the material goods considered necessary by Europeans, and thus they were better off” (Kiste, 1985, pg. 3). Till this present day some of the Melanesian islands such as Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are still viewed in the similar form. The Pacific Islands is a group of similar people and lifestyles, however, the contrast between neighbouring islands was recognizable. In a sense, the way Melanesians lived a “hard primitivism” lifestyle instilled fear and distaste in foreigners “difficult places and their less healthy environment made them less attractive” (Kiste, 1985, pg. 5) This is evident in the book, ‘The Pacific Islands’, where Melanesians

Amazonian Indigenous peoples are facing a dilemma: to be gobbled by the dominant society and try to get advantage of it or, on the contrary, to recover, enhance and reconfigure their identity. Acknowledging that they cannot come back to their pre-colonized state, due to their social memory and because of the presence of structural, economic and socio-psychological lock-in effects (Berkes, 2007; Wilson, 2014). Thus being, or rather, “becoming” indigenous turns into a determination that expresses a way of thinking, feeling and living the dominant system and the on-going process of globalization (R., personal communication 26th February

Human intrusions are the largest threat to the ecosystem on the Galapagos Islands. This is due to the increase in tourism over the past 16 years. Tourism has grown at a rate of 14% per year (Watkins and Cruz, 2007). The number of hotels on the islands has increased from 33 to 65 and the number of bars and restaurants has increased from 880 to 1,668 (Watkins and Cruz, 2007). This is definitely an indicator of how much tourism has grown on the islands. This causes massive problems in the ecosystem. The only way to these tourists can get to the islands is by boat. The boats that bring the people to the islands are bringing more pollution and waste. The tourists on these boats are bringing plants and animals with them that carry germs, disease, and insects that threaten the native populations on the islands.

The human impact of tourism on reefs, while having its economic and social benefits, also has detrimental impacts on the surrounding environment of the reefs, globally. A study, conducted by the ARC Centre of Excellence: Coral Reef Studies has stated that more than half of Latin America’s coral reefs are potentially going to be tainted and disintegrated within the next 5-10 years and that 70% of the world’s coral reefs are likely to vanish by 2030, as a result of tourism related activities (ARC Centre of Excellence, 2011). An example of this coral loss can be seen below, in Image 1.1, which demonstrates the estimated coral loss along the North-East coast of Queensland, in the next 15 years.