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the largest being the Great Barrier Reef covering over 2000 kilometers along the East Coast of Australia. The reef is said to be 500,000 to 2,500,000 years old and is said to be visible from the moon. There is only one problem with this beautiful structure and that is the carelessness of man. Silt from deforested lands and pollution from crowded coastlines choke them, and overuse by coal miners, fisheries, and even tourists deplete and destroy coral reefs.
There are many more factors that add to the destruction of the coral reefs, which if not stopped it will destroy all coral reefs. Corals are animals, not plants; sunlight is the key to their survival. They need it to power the millions of microscopic algae that live in their tissues. The algae provide the corals with food and oxygen in return for raw materials and a secure place to live. This teamwork is what allows the reef to survive in nutrient-poor tropical seas. This relationship is sensitive to such changes in the ...

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the Great Barrier Reef. The tourists are not only fisherman and devoted divers, but they are also scientists who wanted to see the enormous reef. Every year the numbers of visitors increase by 10%. It has brought many resorts to the area that also want to get into the fun and make a little money in the billion-dollar business. Even the hotels and the motels pollute the reefs by their drainage of sewage pipes. This is causing a huge problem in coastal tourism, which is the world’s fastest growing industry, worth over $7 billion annually in the Caribbean. Marine Scientists are really worried of how much longer the reef can survive with all these visitors to the reefs.
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