... Scientists have not yet finished counting the thousands of different species of plants and animals that use or live in the coral reef. There are three types of coral reefs: fringing reefs, barrier reefs, and atolls. Fringing reefs are located close to shore, separated from land by only shallow water. Barrier ... visible from the moon. There is only one problem with this beautiful structure and that is the carelessness of man. Silt from deforested lands and pollution from crowded coastlines chokes them, and overuse by coal miners, fisheries, and even tourists deplete and destroy coral ree...

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... half of the world's coral reefs with the coral reefs in South-East Asia constitute 30% of the world's coral reefs (Lin,S.H, 2000). Coral reefs are generally classified into three types: barrier reefs, fringing reefs, and atolls. Both barrier reefs and atolls are both characterized by a lagoon that is protected on the seaward side by the reef. Barrier reefs occur in ... reefs (Reiss and Chapman, 2000) and majority of these damages are caused by anthropogenic (Lin,S,H. 2000) 88% of South-East Asian coral reefs are threatened by over fishing , sedimentation, and pollution from land-based s...

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