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Let's save these reefs.
© Dan Wagner |
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The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary plan, adopted in 1990, will be implemented over the next ten to twenty years to clear up water around the Keys and Florida Bay. Under the plan, some Key reefs will be off limits to visitors, and on others, limits or prohibitions will be placed on how many fish, shells, and other animals can be removed. The purpose of the Environmental Protection Agency's five-year Reef Monitoring Project is to determine what causes reef damage so these fragile ecosystems can be protected more effectively.
Saving the reefs will involve major rethinking of the way humans use--and abuse--coastal ecosystems. "We need a public that is really prepared to make changes," says ecologist Jim Porter bluntly. "If we don't, we're going to lose some of the most precious things on our planet. Coral reef is just a little cry and whisper of the same message."
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