To most people the ocean is just another swimming hole. Another location to soak up the sun and cool off in the salty water. But what if everyone saw the ocean for what it actually is..
The ocean is home to over 228,000 KNOWN species of creatures. With at least 2 million more species that have yet to be discovered or have little knowledge of. Everything in the ocean is alive. From the tiniest of zooplankton to the biggest of whales and everything in between. The rocks are alive, the sand is living, the corals are alive. Everything. I’d bet that many people don’t know that over 70% of the world’s oxygen comes from coral reefs. Which is amazingly interesting considering coral reefs only take up about .0025% of the ocean and we have trees on almost every corner. I’m almost certain that most people don’t even realize that our oceans coral reefs are dying. Our constant pollution to our beautiful world is slowly changing the climate and atmosphere so much that our corals have slowly started to just die and turn to dust under the water.
Our decisions every day have major impacts on the world we live in. It may take years to see the difference, but it’s there. Lurking. Destroying everything we love.
Without coral reefs, our oceans will start to die. Fish and other creatures will start going extinct because there won’t be any place for them to hide. Many reef species of fish rely on the reef and vice versa. The reef relies on the fish who live within them to drop bits of food as they feed.
The clownfish is known to bond with anemones for a safe home. But did you know they keep each other alive? The clownfish brings food back home to the anemone and in return the anemone lets the clownfish use him as a hiding spot from predators. If the reefs keep dying, where will the anemones go? Will the clownfish be one of the many creatures that could possibly go extinct?
Our oceans are already being taken advantage of everyday. With the continuous commercial fishing, the enormous amount of trash that gets dumped, the oil rigs, the pieces of rockets that float back down. Climate change is probably the biggest problem right now, besides commercial fishing. With the climate changing every day, our oceans are slowly warming up in places it shouldn’t be that warm.
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