Saving Sea-Life.

   In the blog that I have just read, Juliette Jowit explains how back in August of this year, the UK created 15 new areas for the protection of marine life stretching from Norfolk to Cornwall and Northern Ireland. Doing this helped the birds and especially the sea life that all lived on the sandbanks, reefs and sea caves. In order to protect sea life animals such as sponges, sea squirts, corals, shellfish, and more exotic creatures, they will not allow fishing, dredging, and even the use of turbines. People who were involved with this conservation project wanted the government to support them but were not aware yet if they would or not due to financial issues.

   Lately in class we have been talking about different wetlands, reefs, toxic runoff into the ocean, etc. Because of that, this blog popped out to me. I could relate it to almost everything I’ve been learning about this past week in environmental and it gave me a greater appreciation to realize how much we could help the animals in the ocean that are effected by what we do.

 Obviously this is a great way to save sea life and their habitats. I wouldn’t be against this idea for a second and don’t see why anybody wouldn’t want to go through with this other than financial reasons. But wouldn’t you think that even with mild financial difficulties people would find it important to save ecosystems where the species living in them can’t defend themselves?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/2/23/1266916131454/Coral-reefs-in-the-Red-Se-002.jpg (first picture)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/20/bird-sea-life-protection-sites (blog)
http://twitter.com/MissionBlue (where I found the blog)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/10/26/gallery/coral-reef-540x380.jpg (second picture)