From the title “Coral reefs: the beauteous home to marine life “, we can know that how beautiful coral reefs form to our marine life. The coral itself contain many colourful colour that make people amaze and want to discovery more about those coral reefs. Coral reefs are home to 25% of all marine life on the planet. It can be found generally in clear, tropical oceans. In this study case our group choose Perhentian Island to do this research. This research is focus on tourism sea activities that cause damage toward coral reefs in Perhentian Island.
Perhentian Island was considered to be one of the most outstanding important of coral reefs areas in Peninsular Malaysia. This is due to their potential in biodiversity value and their strategic …show more content…
The activities that were done here are for example scuba diving, snorkelling, fishing, and also cruise trip. Generally, it is the most popular activities in Perhentian Island and many tourists from all country not just in Malaysia love this Island. Some of this diving site, the tourist was able to see mimic octopus, bamboo sharks, seahorses, yellow boxfish, and many more. Beside that there are many types of coral reefs that can be found here including the large and small stag horn corals, tube corals, whip corals, barrel sponge and also vibrant soft corals. All of this activity however could bring damage to the coral reefs. If this continued, they will lost the quality of the coral …show more content…
But not all the divers cause the same amount of damage. Usually, when does this research, we know that they do not take carefully about coral reefs. The coral reefs are very sensitive in different situation such as when they are pollution, the coral reefs will easily cause blemish and the coral lost their color. Same as scuba divers, they have more impacts on corals than snorkelers, particularly divers wearing gloves and photography with equipment. This is because snorkelers mainly float above the corals on the surface of the water and damage to coral is usually limited to shallow water areas where snorkelers can either stand directly on or kick
Perhentian Island was considered to be one of the most outstanding important of coral reefs areas in Peninsular Malaysia. This is due to their potential in biodiversity value and their strategic …show more content…
The activities that were done here are for example scuba diving, snorkelling, fishing, and also cruise trip. Generally, it is the most popular activities in Perhentian Island and many tourists from all country not just in Malaysia love this Island. Some of this diving site, the tourist was able to see mimic octopus, bamboo sharks, seahorses, yellow boxfish, and many more. Beside that there are many types of coral reefs that can be found here including the large and small stag horn corals, tube corals, whip corals, barrel sponge and also vibrant soft corals. All of this activity however could bring damage to the coral reefs. If this continued, they will lost the quality of the coral …show more content…
But not all the divers cause the same amount of damage. Usually, when does this research, we know that they do not take carefully about coral reefs. The coral reefs are very sensitive in different situation such as when they are pollution, the coral reefs will easily cause blemish and the coral lost their color. Same as scuba divers, they have more impacts on corals than snorkelers, particularly divers wearing gloves and photography with equipment. This is because snorkelers mainly float above the corals on the surface of the water and damage to coral is usually limited to shallow water areas where snorkelers can either stand directly on or kick