Assertion: coral reef | /r/HasProperty | valuable
Facets:
value: to humans
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for recreational opportunities
type: PURPOSE
value: for potential medicines
type: PURPOSE
value: for tourism
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Coral reefs are also valuable for commercial and sport fishing, tourism and recreational opportunities for diving, boating, and photography as well as their intrinsic value as a natural wilderness that provides habitat for numerous species, some of them endangered.
text: Coral reefs provide shelter for a wide variety of marine life, they provide humans with recreation, they are a valuable source of organisms for potential medicines, they create sand for beaches, and serve as a buffer for shorelines.
text: This knowledge will also help you to understand why coral reefs are so valuable to humans and why their destruction should be prevented.