- Hello Jeff - This is just terrible news. In the past
15 years there has been a 90% decline in Elkhorn Coral in and around the
Florida Keys. Given the fact that this is one of the most important
reef-building species, this is a terrible predictor of the future of this
species of coral, and all coral.
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- The saddest part is that the decline is due to human
activity, namely due to sewage. The bacteria causing the disease and decline
lives in the human gut.
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- We have not been very good caretakers of our planet's
environment and of other species.
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- Patty
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- Please read - or you can listen to - the entire story
here -
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- http://www.npr.org/2011/08/17/139705482/caribbean-coral-catch-disease-from-sewage
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