Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef system is suffocating under a shroud of mud mixed with toxic pesticides that have washed off farmlands. Many of its 2900 individual coral reefs and 900 islands are unlikely to survive the next five to ten years. Many insure reefs are now highly degraded or dead having collapsed due to the effect of sediment and nutrients pouring out of the rivers.
How is the human race even still alive? Mother nature clearly is out to get us.
Take a look at Earth’s amazing Nature extremes and find out what is the longest, highest, hottest, coldest and largest of them all.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s biggest single structure made by living organisms. It supports a diversity of life, including many vulnerable and endangered species, some of which may be endemic to the reef system. Here are a few from the multitude of exciting undersea creatures you will encounter in the largest coral reef system in the planet.
Only this September 18, the National Geographic Channel has released its new found creatures under the depths of Australia’s Heron Island “Great Barrier Reef”.
A few beautiful species of the wonderful Great Barrier Reef.
Hopefully, after reading this article you will realise that you don’t have to travel far and wide to see beauty. True beauty can also be found in the little things.
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