The largest coral reef archipelago: Great Barrier Reef

The largest coral reef archipelago: Great Barrier Reef
It is located east of Queensland, Australia, with a total length of more than 2,000 kilometers. It is the world's most beautiful and largest coral reef archipelago with a total area of ​​207,000 square kilometers.
When the tide is low, about 80,000 square kilometers of reefs are exposed to the surface of the water. When the tide is high, most of the reefs are covered by sea water, leaving only more than 600 islands and reefs flickering and appearing in a unique style.
In a sense, the Great Barrier Reef can actually be called a coral island, because the Great Barrier Reef is basically composed of coral reefs. If the complex issues are simplified, coral reefs are the dead coral insects. Generations of coral insects left the remains, and the soul did not know where it went. Over time, there was a coral reef.
Of course, it is also home to many marine wildlife. There are about 1,500 species of tropical marine fishes, including elegant butterfly fish, colorful damselfishes, beautiful and gorgeous lionfish, as well as the likes and hates of the stampfish, and angels. Various tropical ornamental fish such as fish and parrot fish.
However, due to global warming and rising ocean temperatures, today’s Great Barrier Reef is no longer a colorful underwater world. Most of the corals have become white, and occasionally dark blue and yellow corals can be seen. This shows that the corals have been severely bleached and are gradually bleaching. Heading for destruction.
According to statistics, in the past 30 years, the Great Barrier Reef has lost nearly 50% of its corals, and they are dying out at a faster rate.
Although scientists have proposed a variety of rescue measures, they have had little effect. The last thing we tell everyone is that the Great Barrier Reef will disappear in about 20 years. We can only watch the once colorful Great Barrier Reef from the BBC documentary.
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