Great Barrier Reef

- Australia-
Table of Contents
• Main facts about the reef
• Which animals live there?
• Why it slowly loses the reef her colour/ dies out?
• Why is the Great Barrier Reef so important?
• What is Australia doing to protect the reefs?
Main facts about the reef
 The biggest coral system composed of over 2.900 reefs
 Over 2.300 kilometres
 Off coast of Queensland
 Over 200 ft deep
 It`s the 7th natural wonders of
the world
Which animals lives there?
safe dangerrous
• Clownfish • box jelly-fish
• Whale • Sharks
• Mantra ray • Crocodiles
• Giant shells
Why coral slowly loses her
colour/ dieds out?
• rising water temperatures
 climate change
 receive too few nutrients and usually starve to death
• tourisms
Why is the Great Barrier Reef so
important?
 productive marine formations
 the perfect habitat for a quarter of all plant and animal species in the ocean
 important coastal protection
 without many tropical islands and coasts would be quickly removed
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