5 Ways You Can Help Reefs

5 Ways You Can Help Reefs

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5 Ways You Can Help Reefs? Well done you eco-warriors, you’re passionate about saving this fragile world that the big wigs and politicians don’t seem to care about unless it lines their pockets. Coral reef is known as the rainforest of the sea in that they only cover a minute area of our oceans but are teeming with life. They’re also pretty handy to have around, absorbing around one-third of our CO2 and producing around half of the Oxygen on Earth. Coral is an animal but also farms tiny algae in a sort of symbiotic relationship. Now obviously the best thing you can do to help coral is to like and share this video so everybody sees it and gets educated. But there are a few other fairly important things to consider such as...

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Sources

Pack Thailand

Pixabay

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Team
Presenter(s): Mark Newman
Writer(s): Mark Newman
Editor(s): Shaun Johnson

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Hashtags
#fridayfeature #coralreef #helpsavecoral #coral #scubadiving #simplyscuba
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Let's Get Social

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[lmlmd]

We need a campaign to clearly label reef-safe sunscreen and "name and shame" damaging screens, much as we did with dolphin-friendly tuna. This is doable, everyone loves reefs. It's an easy sell if we can gain traction to begin with.

[scottjackson]

I have an answer to the plastic straw issue. Take the lid off and drink the beverage like an adult if your motor skills are still intact.

[leopoldbloom]

Well done, Mark, that was arguably the hardest to pronounce video so far. Trouble is, I can‘t neither pronounce nor remember these chemicals. Does simply scuba offer a reef friendly sunscreen or recomment one?

[gee]

Hey, Mark, Shaun, I posted in a couple other of your videos about a movie (actually it is a documentary) that I think Divers should watch. that movie is "Chasing Coral" the movie gives an in depth look at what is happening to our coral reeves. And the problem isn't a localized situation it is global. This movie will give a better understanding of what is happening to the coral. Sadly there isn't a lot we can do, but we certainly do not have to contribute to the problem.

[robertthompson]

I was pulling some fishing line off some reef the other day and all the fish around me kinda gathered around and started looking at the line, then looking at me, kinda how a dog does when it's interested in something.

[Sebastian-mhjx]

Although I liked the video I'm kinda disappointed, that 4 of the 5 ways to help corals are actually just ways to not damage corals any further and not ways to actively help them. It's like helping your kid to stay healthy by not punching it in the face.

[eliaspecholapida]

It'll be difficult to convince people to look what chemicals are in their sunscreen, not to say avoid them completely, but i hope it'll be easier to make people understand not to buy it.