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WORLD CORAL REEFS WIPED OUT BY 2050 Nearly all the world's coral reefs will be dead in 45 years. Corals, such as those that make up the Great Barrier Reef are dying off at an alarming rate. Corals are delicate living creatures which provide a balanced ecosystem for millions of other interdependent sea creatures For example, The Great Barrier Reef stretches thousands of kilometers along Australia's east coast. Pollution and a change in sea temperature due to global warming are known to be the primary reasons for this continuing disaster. At The British Association for the Advancement of Science conference in 2002 Rupert Ormand, a marine biologist from the University of Glasgow provided firm evidence that the continuing rise of sea temperatures will wipe out the billions the sea creatures that depend on the corals for habitat and food. And due to the greenhouse effect caused by humans, there is no chance now of reversing the consequences. Coral destruction is also caused by an unbalance of the ocean food chain, such as crown of thorns star fish whose numbers have risen dramatically due to the over-fishing of their predators by man. There are various other ecological unbalances that are causing this dramatic destruction, at a loss which is equivalent to the tropical rain forests, but all of which are caused by mankind's destruction of the natural biodiversity. This article last updated or added to in: June 2005
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