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Australian Barrier Reef
It is one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. Located in the Coral Sea, northwest of Australia, it is the largest live coral reef on the planet. From above, the vision of this unique marine habitat is fascinating, almost unreal. Thanks to the shallow clean waters, the rich ecosystem that inhabits and inhabits the seabed is easily perceived from the sky.
Many say the Australian coral barrier is the largest living being in the world. In practice, coral is an animal of a few millimeters, but has the ability to take calcium dissolved in the sea and fix in its tissues. Thanks to this, it produces those compact structures that give it its usual appearance. When the coral dies, its calcium structure remains in the sea, when other corals colonize these structures and create new ones over the old generations. This process results in coral reefs. The Australian is 2,000 kilometers long, the largest in the world. Residence of 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 of molluscs.
The coral ecosystem is as beautiful as it is fragile. Until recently its main rival has been pollution and fishing without measures, fortunately the Australian barrier reef is already a protected space. Now its main enemy is global warming. Corals are very sensitive to ocean temperature changes, so some say the Australian coral barrier is the chronicle of an announced death.
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