How you can help save the Great Barrier Reef

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Let's talk about that.

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So we worked out they're under threat.

We worked out we've got a community that's going to come together.

And why are the reefs so useful to nature? I've gone a bit down the rabbit hole of understanding that.

But there's a lot to them and they do a lot for us, don't they?

100%.

So the Great Barrier Reef and reefs in general support a massive biodiversity of life.

So there's a particular statistic, which don't quote me, but if you just Google it, you'll get the stat yourself.

It's a very small percentage of the oceans are made up of coral reefs.

It'll be less than 5%.

They support almost the majority of all marine species in the ocean.

So yeah, coral reefs are basically the cities in the ocean where you have all the different species, whether it's fish, mammals, crustaceans, corals, all living in one space.

And then in those open ocean areas, they're maybe like your kind of you know, the fields rather than the cities.

Everything is really focused in on those coral reefs.

So what's really important is that we keep those particular ecosystems healthy and vibrant so that all those species can continue to live there.

Because if we lose that small percentage of our oceans where the coral reefs are, we're going to lose so much more than the proportional amount of our biodiversity and species.

It's essentially a hotspot.

Is that what you call it? Yeah, you can call it that for sure.

They're definitely biodiversity hotspots.

Yeah, and so if you're compromising an ability for, you know, underwater nature to live together, that can't be a good thing.

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