Global Warming Continues To Take Its Toll

Well I hope you have all enjoyed my blogs over the past 5 weeks, and have taken all of the information to heart.  I never knew how much the Great Barrier Reef was in danger to environmental threats until I started this blog; I thought it was just a beautiful area off the Queensland Coast in Australia, that was protected and its beauty was going to be preserved for thousands of years to come.  Boy was I ever wrong! I feel like I have even more of a reason to travel to Australia and see the Great Barrier Reef with my own eyes, as the pictures and articles I have come across are just not doing justice for me anymore.

I have spoken to you about things from the ocean acidification, to different types of pollution, to Cyclone Yasi that hit, to overfishing, and these are the major environmental threats the reef has had to face in the past, is facing today, and will most likely be facing in the future if we as humans don’t start to take extreme measures in protecting our environment! I know some things are out of our control, such as global warming; but over fishing, and preventing soil run off into the reef can be taken care of.



Massive Coral Porites



Global warming is affecting the whole world negatively, not just the Great Barrier Reef. Massive Porites coral, in the Great Barrier Reef are not growing as much anymore, most likely because of warmer and more acidic seawater from the effects of global warming.  This is difficult for me to see the damages it is doing to the life cycle of the coral, and the inability of anyone to fix it. The changing in global warming is damaging not only the coral reef, but the home it is to the fish, which is also affecting us.  We need to continue to take precautions with what resources we have available as we want to leave the environment the way it is now for future generations to come!:)

I would just like to thank all of my followers for taking the time to read about my deep feels for the Great Barrier Reef, and to end today’s blog on a positive note, I have provided a few pictures of the reef before the massive damage was done.

 

Heart Shaped Reef