The Great Barrier pt.2
The Great Barrier is one of the UNESCO World Heritage site, which makes this place even more worthy to save. Some people have suggested installing floating shades to protect corals from bright sunlight that exacerbates bleaching, while others have recommended pumping water up from deep in the ocean to cool ailing habitats.
Also human impact isn't very good for the reef, like boaters anchoring near coral ecosystems and people standing on reefs.
Some scientists are turning to labs to grow baby corals to be replanted on existing reefs, but this expensive and under-funded solution - is only effective on a small scale. It also requires new coral to be replaced into an acidic, warm, and overall harmful environment, which doesn't address the problem of increasingly toxic waters.
So we can see that there are many great ideas and very little time, but in my opinion we should try. We can't give up, because largely it's our fault that water ecosystem is slowly dying.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/01/australia-great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-conservation-competition-spd/
https://www.britannica.com/place/Great-Barrier-Reef
But you have to admit that even when bleached the coral reef is still really beautiful.
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