Great Barrier Reef🏝
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Tourists can enjoy many things at the reef including snorkeling and scuba diving the coral reefs. And you can go on aircraft or helicopter tours, glass-bottomed boat viewing, semi-submarines,
cruise ship tours, whale watching and swimming with dolphins.
Photo by CAUT
More than 1,500 fish species live on the reef, including the Clownfish, Red bass, Red-throat emperor, and several species of snapper and coral trout. About 5,000 species of Mollusks live on the reef.
Photo by SineadFriel
Nearly all species of sea turtle are Endangered. They are slaughtered for their eggs, meat, skin and shells. sea turtles suffer from poaching and over-exploiting. These turtles also face habitat destruction and accidental capture in fishing gear. Climate change has an impact on turtle nesting sites too.
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Another thing that threatens the Great Barrier Reef is: warmer ocean temperatures that can lead to coral bleaching
The Great Barrier Reef is super ancient. Enormous hosts of living things, composed of living coral growing on dead coral dating back perhaps as much as twenty million years ago
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FUN FACTS.
- The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest reef system.
- The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space.
Photo by LLudo
