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Coral reefs are also being degraded by many other factors. The list of problems can seem endless: overfishing, fishing using cyanide and dynamite, pollution from sewage and agriculture, massive outbreaks of predatory starfish, invasive species, and sedimentation from poor land use practices.

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Coral reefs may only cover less than 1% of the ocean seabed, but they are home to 25% of aquatic organisms.

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Coral reef ecosystems support a variety of human needs. They are important for subsistence, fisheries, tourism, shoreline protection, and yield compounds that are important in the development of new medicines.

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The coral provides shelter for many animals in this complex habitat, including sponges, nudibranchs, fish (like Blacktip Reef Sharks, groupers, clown fish, eels, parrotfish, snapper, and scorpion fish), jellyfish, anemones, sea stars

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Plant plankton, called phytoplankton, algae and seagrasses are the only type of flora in coral reefs

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Coral Reefs don´t have soil, but there will be a lot of loose carbonate mud from the breakup of coral and other shell debris, and from the grazing of parrotfish and the like.

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Reefs are hard-as-stone structures that have been built up over many thousands of years by tiny organisms called corals leaving behind their skeletal remains. Typically, corals will invade the seas around a sheltered volcanic island, taking root on the fresh rock below the surface. They are usually found at a depth around 150 feet.

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Coral Reefs favor temperatures between 70- 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Coral reefs need sunlight since individual polyps, which contribute to the growth of corals, contain symbiotic algae

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Coral Reef locations