Marine life and its Conservation

Being from landlocked country, I haven't seen any marine Ecosystem but I am happy because Conservation of Marine life will conserve the global environment. In this report, I will particularly address how Marine conservation will leads to the Conservation of Earth.

'Marine life' refers to organisms that live in salt water that includes a diverse group of plants, animals and microbes. Marine conservation helps to combat from global climate change which is one of the emerging environmental issues, concern to all nowadays.

Importance:

The marine or ocean and coasts provides the ecosystem resource like: Carbon storage, oxygen generation, food and income generation. Coastal ecosystems like mangroves and salt marshes play a vital role in carbon storage and sequestration. They sequester carbon more efficiently and faster than terrestrial ecosystem forest per unit area. An estimated 0.15-1.02 billion tons of CO2 will release in atmosphere every year if these ecosystem are degraded which accounts for up to 19% of global carbon emissions from deforestation. It is estimated that ocean vegetation, coral, and algae hold up to 93 % of carbon dioxide. Conservation International (CI) shows that the ocean holds a large quantity of the excess greenhouse gases that humans produce. 

As stated by marinebio.org, marine algae may yield as much as 90 percent of the Earth's oxygen. It also says that the majority of the oxygen that marine algae creates will become atmospheric oxygen, even though the ocean traps some of it. So, it indicates that the marine is important for maintain the living conditions which are vital for human life.

But the problems:

The extensive increase in global temperature has threatened the marine and coasts ecosystem and is being impacted by massive increase in CO2 content and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities.

CO2 emissions are making the ocean more acidic taking many marine species and vegetation towards the critical. Ocean acidification reduces the life span of many vital species.

Solutions Forward:

-Respective countries should develop their appropriate plan and policies for the sustainable use of marine resources.

-Protection and restoration of coastal ecosystems 

-Proper monitoring of Marine ecosystem.

-Outreach activities and scientific research. 

References:

1.   https://www.iucn.org/resources/issues-briefs/ocean-and-climate-change

2.   https://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/environmental-issues/importance-ocean-preservation

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