Coral Reefs Rescue

CORAL REEFS RESCUE!!

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ABOUT THE CORALS

Coral is an unique animal that lives in symbiosis with seaweeds.Coral reefs feed fishes, molluscs and seal aquatic ecosystems.On world scale 20% of coral reefs are already gone and 20% more are in extinction danger. When sea temperatures reach high levels, symbiosis is broken and corals die starving and bleach.

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Your mission is to find the right code, to save the corals from dying

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Andros

Belize

Blue Lagoon

Great Coral Reef

BELIZE

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Located in Carabbean sea near Yucatan’s coasts of mexico, Belize is the largest coral reef of west hemisphere. It extends over 1000 km from Yucatan south Mexico to Honduras’s bay. Offshore is situated the Great Blue Hole, a submarine cave of 300 m in diameter and 100 m deep.

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Corals are symbiosis living animals

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corals live in symbiosis with a seaweed called symbiodinum

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There are about 30 coral species

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corals count more than 700 different species

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Coral reefs are walls against natural disasters like cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons

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coral reefs protect coasts from disasters and erosion

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ANDROS

Bahamas coral reefs Archipelago is the world fifth biggest with a length of 225 km and a deep going down to 1900 km

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Super corals are able to reach 10 m height

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coral height varies from a few centimeters to 2/3 meters

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Coral Reefs have been living for several thousand years

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Great Barrier Reef age is estimate at 20 000 years

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Coral species are exclusively hermaphroditic

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the sex and the reproduction change between species

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GREAT LAGOON

Along New Caledonia the second largest coral barrier spreads over 1600 km and delineates a 24 000 km2 length lagoon. More than 400 coral species and 1600 fishes are classified including phosphorescent corals.

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Touch a coral can kill it

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coral is venomous. In touch with skin, some irritant toxin effects may persist for a few weeks after

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After a coral sting, rinsing the wound with lemon and vinegar is recommended

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rinsing with pure water is not recommended, it could open the capsule. Contrariwise, the acidity of lemon and vinegar inhibits the effect of the toxins

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Corals have a super power, they can cure cancer

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the toxins released by the corals when they defend themselves can kill cancerous tumors. Researchers from Marseille are developing this solution which allowed to save 75% of their test subjec

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GREAT BARRIER REEF

It Runs over 2600 km along Australia's coasts, the world’s largest coral barrier with almost 2900 reefs and 600 islands. A huge collection with 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc. It also holds great scientific interest as the habitat of species such as the dugong (‘sea cow’) and the large green turtle, which are threatened with extinction.

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Corals can’t move

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some corals can move like Heteropsiammia cochlea

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The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from space

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the surface area of the Great Barrier reef is more than 350 000 km2

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Plastic is good for coral

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plastic contains numerous toxins for corals, even if some species are fond of it

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