What is it about?
Coral reefs are important community in coastal ecosystem. They are look like a rainforest in terrestrial. Coral reefs are very vulnerable to damage, and their degradation is caused by many reasons among them sedimentation, pollutions from industrial domestic waste, coral mining, over exploitation, and unsustainable fishing activity. Human activity (e.g. destructive fishing, uncontrolled tourism) can cause dramatic damage in a short period of time to the coral reef ecosystem. Coral reed also need very long time to recover.
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Why is it important?
We presented degradation of the coral community in the islands of Indonesia (Bangka Belitung Islands), and it is likely caused by human activity. Increase of human activities will significantly affects the coral reef condition surrounding. Protection of coral reefs with sustainable management for this activity (e.g. mining activity, tourism and fishing practices) are urgent and needed.
Perspectives
Writing this article is one of our efforts to spread information about how human disturbance environmental such as coastal community. We hope our paper can give some information to people who care and make different to change our bad habit to environment. This article of course not covered all issue but we still have on going research and hopefully can give another information related to this topic.
Singgih Afifa Putra
Lembaga Pengembangan dan Pemberdayaan Pendidik dan Tenaga Kependidikan Bidang Kelautan Perikanan Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi
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This page is a summary of: Human activities and persistent coral reef degradation in Gaspar Strait, Bangka Belitung Islands, Indonesia, F1000Research, December 2018, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.16519.1.
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