International Year of the Reef 2008
Did you know that 500 million people depend on coral reefs. They depend on the for various things such as food, protection from a raging storm, recreation and jobs. Sadly, these reefs are being destroyed everday due to our human activites. Some of these activites are just regular fishing, overfishing, deforestation, and pollution. Pollution is a big problem because we don’t even realize that we are polluting our earth and its oceans. On reefcheck.com, they stated that “threats may continue to build as the global temperature rises”.
Thankfully, there are many types of organization that are trying to help these reefs. One organization or group is called the IYOR (simply, International Year of the Reef). This worldwide campaign is here to raise awareness on how important these reefs are and the threats we put on their homes. Another thing they do is to improve the understanding and take immediate action to help those who have been threatened. The IYOR want to help motivate people to help these suffering reefs that we put in pain.
I chose the topic “International Year of the Reef 2008″ because I feel that not only can I help but we can all help and support the IYOR by doing various things. Also it relates me a lot because I enjoy helping out and this is one thing that I would definitly help coral reef. Some things we can do to help is to continue recycling and not overfish. We don’t realize it but we are the ones that are killing these coral reefs. If we don’t help the IYOR and take action, we will be in a whole lot of trouble. Like I mentioned before, us – humans- depend on these magnificant, colorful reefs for many different things like for food and protection. Imagine what would happen if we didn’t have any more of these left. It wouldn’t be mother nature’s fault, it would be our faults because some of us were being careless and not doing simple things to help like recycling. The Year of the Reef is a very important year and if we all do some simple things, we can help them stay here forever!
Pictures are from iyor.org and wikipidea.com
on November 21st, 2008 at 11:40 am
Hey Again!
In my social studies class i am doing a project on life in the 19th century. We get to choose someone who we have been talking with from our blog to “Grade” our project. I have to write an essay on the life in the arly 19th century. I would really love if you would grade my project for me! please writ back and let me know if you would like to.
Emily