GET INVOLVED
1. Conserve water - the less water you use, the less runoff and wastewater will pollute our oceans.
2. Use only ecological or organic fertilizers in your gardens and on your lawns. Chemicals and pesticides flow into the water system, pollute the ocean, and can travel on ocean currents at great distances, doing harm to coral reefs and other sea life.
3. Plant a Tree - you will reduce runoff into the oceans. You will also contribute to reversing the global warming of our planet and the rising temperatures of our oceans.
4. Organize a beach clean-up. Garbage pollutes ocean waters and harms coral reefs and other sea life.
5. When you visit a coral reef, practice reef safe diving and snorkeling. Do not touch the reef or anchor your boat on the reef.
6. Interview your family, friends and neighbors. Ask them what they know about coral reefs and the coral reef crisis. Ask them what they are doing to save coral reefs.
7. Write to your government representatives and demand they take action to protect coral reefs, stop sewage pollution of our oceans, expand marine protected areas and take steps to reverse global warming.
8. Support and volunteer for organizations like PCRF that work to protect coral reefs, oceans, rivers, lakes or other waters in your area. Clean water is important everywhere. All watersheds affect the oceans and eventually, the coral reefs.
9. Learn more about coral reefs, their remarkable biodiversity and the special role they play as messengers for the health of our oceans and our world.
10. Build Wastewater Gardens¨ (ecological waste recycling systems) in your home, school or community.
Every simple thing you do to help save coral reefs makes a difference! more info: www.pcrf.org/tensimple.html
Participants who have signed up to BleachWatch and regularly visit the reef are provided with a BleachWatch kit and asked to complete purpose-designed monitoring forms on a weekly basis. www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/info_services/science/climate_change/existing_participants.html
Does your school have what it takes to make a difference and keep the Reef
great?
Do you and your students want to help protect the Great Barrier Reef and other
important marine environments for the future? www.reefed.edu.au/guardians/
"Australian SeaChange is pledging $100,000.00 to kick start a national Adopt-A-Beach campaign if they can get 10,000 subscribers before 30th May 2006. Australian SeaChange Magazine is a recently established high quality national publication that showcases coastal and marine lifestyles and issues. Proceeds of the magazine go to coastal conservation. Visit www.seachangemag.com.au to find out more."
The SafeClimate carbon footprint calculator allows you to determine carbon dioxide emissions from major sources. Visit go.ucsusa.org/calculator.html
