Authors
Kumari Mohini
Abstract
Coral reefs are window to the past. They are ocean reefs created by coral (living animals) or especially by stony coral colony. These corals have outer skeleton made up of limestone which is made by carbon di-oxide and calcium which is present in the sea water. The network of these skeleton of dead coral are creates reefs under sea water. There are also the living coral reef as well. Beneath the water the dead coral reefs occupies the lower water are while living ones covers the top .But with the time these reefs are being affected greatly due to human activities. The waste that we are disposing in water eventually meets the ocean and pollute the water as well as its habitat. If we still don’t take any step to prevent them, there might be the chance that the future generation won’t even able be to witness these alluring window to the past. Affecting reefs will not only affect mankind but also affect the creatures underwater who are dependent on reefs for their survival and we all do know that even a single loop in the food chain will show impact to every individual from lower class to the upmost higher class on the Earth. In this paper we have covered the concerns for reef, impact of pollution on them and their fluctuating population around the Indian coast (Levy, 2008). Keywords: Coral Reefs, Ocean, Pollution, Limestone, Indian Coasts
Introduction
A reef considered as the material of ridge present at or adjacent to the ocean surface. It can also occur certainly and naturally. The natural reefs are composed of skeletons of small animals or rocks which is termed as corals (National Geographic)
The chief coral reefs comprise of islands with consisting further 2000 km of ridge of Lakshadweep-Maldives-Chagos; also the patch reefs and fringing in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands all over the place of the Gulf of Mannar in Sri Lanka and India, and consisting the Sri Lanka’s south eastern coastline and western coastline. Fewer well established groups of coral happen in different India’s parts, particularly in the Gulf of Kachchh, including the Karnataka, coast of Maharastra, Kerala, Goa, and Tamil Nadu. Adequate or can say poorly studied communities of coral are present around Jinjira reefs in Bangladesh and St. Martins Island/Jinjiradwip, and also including the Baluchistan shore in Pakistan, along with Gwadarand Astola Island. (Tamelander and Rajasuriya, 2013).
Reefs can be of following types:-
Artificially Manufactured Reefs-
Man-made reefs are built majorly for three principal causes. The primary one for the purpose of guarding the coastline. The work of Reefs represent as barriers among the powerful ocean and tornadoes coast. They also responsible in protecting coastlines with the coming erosion. An island, named Maldives considered as state in the Indian Ocean, has built ridges to defend its coastal island of coral with that of the cyclones and other related factors that might formed to erosion in beach.
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