Ocean Ecology

Ocean Ecology

 We live on earth, a beautiful planet with plenty of life living together including us, human. The earth is a bit unfair, it only cover 29,1% of earth surface with land and the rest is water which is about 70,1%. That mean the land is only about one third of the whole world surface area, there are more creature living on this world beside terrestrial ones. There is a part of the world that human haven't fully explore yet, that part is marine ecosystem.

  When we are talking about ecosystem it include many thing like ocean, salt marshes, intertidal zones, estuaries, lagoons, mangroves, coral reefs, the ocean floor and home of many sea creatures. We all know that sea is the home of many well and unknown creatures, including plant, animals, bacteria and many more. Scientist estimated that there are about 1 million specie are living in ocean. Ocean is like any water bodies, contribute greatly to climate change.

  Marine ecosystem bring a lot of benefits for human, such as in tourism and fishing. Fishing today provide about 16% of world's dietary protein source. Tourism attract lot of people to visit and also bring as much as fishing does. Together all of these lead to economic development, with better job, salaries, sales,...
  As most people know, human not really nice to appreciate everything they got, instead of preserve ecosystem, we are destroying it. We over-fishing, not allow resources to replenish. As fishing technology with electric net and bomb, we are even more destructive. We pollute water with oils and wastes ( many kind of wastes especially from factories). These poisons will contaminate the water and harm the marine life. For example, there is also acid acidification created by carbon dioxide, which weaken shells of sea creatures.

  This problems become worse and worse everyday, even people know this is happening. There are some small effort from groups of people, which is really good to know that The Marine Conservation Institute tries to increase protected marine areas, some people try to encourage to stop using electric net and bombing in fishing, some other try to clean up the oil mess of the ocean. Here are what you can do and message to everybody:
- Stop destroy marine life.