Coral Triangle

by: Charise G. Bollozos

Six Southeast Asian governments are trying to save the undersea worlds that is threatened to be lost due to changes in the environment and because of human irresponsibility.
They have launched the project Coral Triangle as an initiative to protect coastal reefs.

The countries of Indonesia, Bali, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and East Timor adopted a 10 year plan to conserve the ocean. The Coral Triangle aims to address the growing threats to the regions coral reefs and coastal ecosystem.

These countries are mostly archipelagic countries so most of the people who live near the shore depend on the ocean for livelihood. I think it is just right that they do all the necessary things to preserve the ocean. There has been a great deterioration of the coral reefs over the years due to natural causes and of course, destructions made by humans. A lot of the fishermen from these countries still use destructive method of fishing like dynamite fishing and the use of poisonous chemicals. Another factor that has caused the coral reefs to be destroyed is the change in environment like the rise in temperature and change in acidity level, but of course we can still blame ourselves for this because these are all results of global warming.

If coral reefs are destroyed then the fishes will not have any place to live in. As a result people who depend on fishing for a living won’t have any form of livelihood. Having this 10 year coral triangle plan to rehabilitate the ocean is a very good idea. It is just right that we take care of the ocean most especially of we depend on it to be able to live.