Information about corals. Their doom, their properties and their lives!

Something about Corals
-Thousands of corals exist worldwide.
-When the corals are growing , reefs provide structural habitats for hundreds to thousands of different vertebrate and invertebrate species.

Conditions for corals
-The water must be warm, clear, and saline for corals to live.
-These waters are almost always nutrient-poor as well.
- Physiologically and behaviorally, corals have evolved to take advantage of this unique environment and thrive there.

Hazards to Coral Reefs
-Coral reefs face numerous hazards and threats, when human populations and coastal pressures increase, reef resources are more heavily exploited, and many coral habitats continue to decline.

The affects dealt by human populations, coastal pressures, hazards and threats to the corals.
- 10 percent of all coral reefs are degraded beyond recovery.
-20 percent are in critical condition and may die within 10 to 20 years.
-Experts predict that if current pressures are allowed to continue unabated, 70 percent of the world’s coral reefs may die completely by 2050.
-Most scientists too believe that coral reef degradation occurs in response to both natural and human-caused stresses.

Some thoughts of people:

-Since there are thousands of corals existing worldwide, why should we care?
10 percent of all coral reefs are already degraded beyond recovery, 20% of the corals is in critical condition and will just die in within 10-20 years time. Experts have also predicted that 70% of the world’s coral reefs will wiped out completely by 2050 if current pressures are allowed to continue unabated.

(Meaning almost half of the population of corals has been affected and in the future the remaining of the population of the corals might also get wiped out. )

source : google.com