Balderosa, Jenaline D.

6.2.1.1 Case Study Discussion – Climate and Biodiversity

As mentioned in the case study article, corals reefs are considered to be vulnerable to different
disruptions due to its sensitive nature making it one of the most threatened specie in the world.
Having said this, here are three of the many steps that government and private sectors could
take in order to protect the world’s remaining coral reefs:

1) Implementing stricter and better policies and programs preventing and prohibiting people
from polluting different bodies of water like providing penalties or even imprisonment to
those people who would be caught throwing garbage in the ocean, companies that
caused oil spills, and people who are using dynamite in fishing.
2) Another, as seen in the news some people are also harvesting coral reefs in the ocean
to sell them and this act is known as “Coral Mining.” With this, the government must stop
this act and same with the previous step, they must also pose great penalties to
violators.
3) For private sectors, promoting water conservation and having advocacies the calls the
attention of the public about the current state of our coral reef ecosystem is one great
way to educate people about how important coral reefs are in our environment. By this,
many people would initiate actions like clean-up drive of different polluted bodies of
water and this would contribute in the protection of the coral reefs.