Great Barrier Reef Bleaching

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders around the world. It is approximately 344,400 kilometers long. The Great Barrier Reef is home to many marine organisms. More than 1,500 species of fish live in the Great Barrier Reef. The coral that forms The Great Barrier Reef is made of polyps. Billions of living coral polyps are attached to the reef. The colour of these polyps range from blue, green, purple, red and yellow. As the largest living structure on the planet, the Great Barrier Reef is incredibly plentiful and various. Stretching 2300 kilometers, this natural icon is so large it can even be seen from outer space. While it’s known mostly for its large maze of colorful reefs, its intricate architecture also provides a home for a huge number of plants and creatures. There are multiple reasons as why the Great Barrier Reef is important, as it helps protect coastlines from the detrimental effects of waves and storms, provides habitats and protection for many marine organisms, help in nutrient recycling and is the source of nitrogen and other essential foods for marine food chains.

The Great Barrier Reef is known as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is believed to be one of the most incredible places on this earth. This reef is the largest living organism on this planet and the only living thing on earth visible from space (2011). The warm waters of the southwest Pacific Ocean are the perfect environments to create the world's largest system of coral reefs. The Great Barrier Reef is in such pristine condition that it was listed by the World Heritage Trust as a protected site and is therefore, managed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to ensure that its beauty is maintained for many travelers and sightseers (Edgar 2010). Due to the complexity of this natural phenomenon, human practices have led

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 environmental issue I chose for this presentation was the bleaching of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef. Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching has been monitored by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) since the early 1980s and major bleaching events have occurred in 1980, 1982, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2016.

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:

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most complex natural ecosystems and was listed on the World Heritage List in 1981. It has a large biodiversity with a great variety of habitats and threatened species including over 400 species of corals, 4,000 species of molluscs, over 1,500 species of fish and a huge diversity of sponges, marine worms, anemones and crustaceans.

The Barrier Reef is the largest reef in the world, and it is located in Australia. It is made up of different types of coral and fish, but sadly the reef is bleaching. Bleaching is the process of water temperatures getting too warm and as a result coral reefs can bleach. When water gets too warm, corals will get rid of the algae living inside their tissues causing the coral to turn completely white. Although, when coral reefs turn white this does not mean that they are dead, coral reefs can actually survive a bleaching event. It just means that the coral is under a lot of stress and

While government officials looked the other way, half of the coral has disappeared from along the length of the Great Barrier Reef. Additionally, vast areas of the reef’s coral have suffered serious degradation. It isn’t surprising that the area’s unique level of biodiversity is being threatened by the damage as well.

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef In the world being at 345, 000 square kilometres in size. This huge amount of reef is home to 1,500 species of fish, 30 species of whales and dolphins, and 133 species of sharks and rays (Act.greenpeace.org, 2018). Imagine you were one of these fish and your home was just dying off leaving you without food and having to move to different areas. We are the ones causing The Great Barrier Reef to die! Not only does the reef provide homes and food for all of these animals but it also provides the ocean and earth with large amounts of oxygen.

The Great Barrier Reef, the largest known reef in the world, is a majestic and beautiful attraction for tourists who visit Queensland, Australia and are looking for an adventure. Many people go to scuba dive, snorkel, or swim in the crystal clear water. There are many more unforgettable experiences that can be done at the Great Barrier Reef, which can be seen from space. The reef is home to a variety of organisms, has many threats that affect it, but in the end, overcomes all of them to thrive and become more beautiful than before.

The Great Barrier Reef is a huge, complex ecosystem located off the east coast of northern Queensland and is considered as an ecosystem at risk. It stretches approximately 2300km from Papua New Guinea’s Fly River in the north (8⁰S) to Fraser Island in the south (24⁰S) and has become the largest World Heritage site in the world. It has 1500 of the worlds 13 000 fish species in it area, 200 bird species, 5oo species of seaweed, 600 species of echinoderm, 125 species of shark and ray and around 360 species of hard coral.

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.

The Great Barrier Reef is Australia’s natural gifts. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef. The Reef is located off the coast of Queensland. It is the largest living thing on Earth and even visible from outer space. The area is 348,000 km² and considered a one of the world’s heritage sites. Thousands of reefs and hundreds of islands made of over 600 types of hard and soft coral. It's home to countless species of colourful fish, molluscs and marine animals (starfish, dolphins, turtles etc.). The Great Barrier Reef is a large tourist attraction of Australia and is important to some cultures such as aboriginals. It reaches from Torres Strait to the north of Lady Elliot Island. The Australian and Queensland governments are

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is located south of Queensland and covers almost 350 000 km2 in area, extending into both the above airspace and the ground under the seabed. It contains 3000 coral reefs, 600 continental islands, 300 coral cays and around 150 inshore mangrove islands (GBRMPA, 2015). It also includes the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, extending over 14 degrees of latitude between estuarine and deep water areas and covering 2300 km. The largest living structure in the world, the Great Barrier Reef evolved over a millennia and is “one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on earth” (DE, 2015), containing 600 types of soft and hard corals, 100 species of jellyfish, 3000

The Great Barrier Reef is located in the southern hemisphere, off the coastline of Queensland in northeastern Australia (18°S, 147°E). The Great Barrier Reef is 344’400km² in area. It is noted to be the most elaborate ecosystem in the world. A variety of organisms live in the Great Barrier Reef, around 1500 species of fish and about 2900 different coral reefs. It is known to be the largest coral reef system in the world, the reef includes many attributes other than the living organisms, like canyons, channels, and plateau’s. There are around 70 wide scale habitats in the Great Barrier Reef and more than 2000km² of mangroves, and around 6000km² of seabeds. There are also about 1050 islands that range from being small coral cays to large