It is an entire interactive entity linking sea creatures and coral with sea-grass beds with beaches with mangroves with estuaries and beyond. Six of the world's seven species of marine turtle live there. The Marine Park is home to the world's most important, but threatened, dugong populations. Greater in area than the United Kingdom, it has more than 2800 individual reefs. The whole ecosystem of the area is under enormous threat from human activities in ways we have barely begun to understand.
Urgent action is needed NOW to protect the whole reef system.
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