How to protect coral reefs?

1, marine reserve

An increasingly widely adopted measure is the establishment of marine protected areas. Some people try to establish marine protected areas in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world to improve fishery management and protect the ecological environment. These reserves are equivalent to natural parks or wildlife reserves on land.

Fishing is not allowed here. The establishment of marine protected areas has both ecological and social purposes. It aims to restore coral reefs, maintain their beauty, increase and protect their biodiversity, and improve the economic situation of local people. The biggest difficulty in establishing protected areas is that there are no realized and contradictory opinions and financial sources.

2. Nature reserves

Sanya Coral Reef National Nature Reserve is one of the national marine nature reserves approved by the State Council in September 1990. Located in the south of Sanya and the coastal waters around the island, the geographical position is109 20 ′ 50 ″ ~109 40 ′ 30 ″ and 18 650 ″ north latitude.

3. Protection organizations

Many organizations aim to help protect coral reefs. For example, the Coral Reef Alliance is a non-profit organization supported by its members. The organization protects the health of coral reefs through integrated ecosystem management, sustainable tourism and community cooperation.

It cooperates with local people to analyze and solve protection problems, change local people's views through education and training, provide resources to strengthen protection work, and provide incentives for sustainable tourism. Its activities include Florida, Belize, Honduras, Mexico, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii.

Coral reef life habits:

Its formation is the result of long-term accumulation and deposition of calcium substances produced by reef-building corals and other reef-building organisms, and it is a kind of reef formed by the accumulation of calcium remains of reef-building corals and calcium algae. Coral reefs in the world are mostly distributed in the sea area between 30 north and south latitude, especially in the central and western Pacific Ocean.

According to the morphology, there are reefs (shore reefs), barrier reefs, atolls, platform reefs and some transitional types. It is estimated that the area of coral reefs and coral islands in the world is100000 square kilometers. The growth rate of coral reefs is generally about 2.5 cm per year. Some coral reefs are very thick, which is caused by the sinking of reef base or the rising of sea surface during the growth and development of coral reefs.

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