CORAL REEFS DYING

Watch an exclusive clip from Robert Kakarigi's documentary Natural World of the Emirates as part of the Land of the Desert Falcon series. The documentary was nominated for award at the 11th Jules Verne film festival in Paris in November 2002. The clip shows the devastating effects of coral reef bleaching in the shallow sea of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf. The Coral reef bleaching results from the stress-induced loss of symbiotic unicellular algae zooxantheallae and/or due to the reduction in photosynthetic pigment concentrations in zooxanthellae. Global climate change may play an important role in the increase in coral bleaching events.
Disclaimer:
In the clip we are using the name Arabian Gulf for the body of water that lies between Iran and the Arab states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. However, in the series we are referring to it as Persian Gulf as well. The documatary was made in 2002. We had no intention to contribute towards the naming dispute. Our intention is to show the devastating effects that climate change has on coral reefs.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• coral
• bleaching
• reef
• global
• warming
• environment
• underwater
• sea
• ocean

[RespectMyHate]

greed is killing the planet.

[stopdemockery]

~ Since the 60's, municipal water fluoridation has used hydrofluorosilicic acid, a waste byproduct from smoke stacks of aluminum and fertilizer plants, containing 23% sodium fluoride (rat poison), mercury, arsenic, lead, barium, cadmium, palonium 20 and other trace poisons. It's dental cavity prevention claim has never been proven. Water filters can't remove it, regardless of their claims. And, commercial pesticides are fluorides. So, our rivers perpetually poison our oceans.

[wellyhead1]

this is the price we pay for killing Jesus! SAVE THE REEFS! SAVE THE WAIL! SAVE THE TIGER and all that! it makes me sad :(

[The88Nomad]

Arabian Gulf? Surely it's the Persian Gulf!!!!

[123lovewebkinz]

help coals