The Great Barrier Reef: An Obituary

I was reading Ed Yong's blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, and came across a post he made of a number of links he was sharing. 


One of them was to a great resource on the Great Barrier Reef, titled... The Great Barrier Reef: An Obituary.

The interactive web page combines amazing photos with informational text as well as video clips from experts and people that live in this area talking about the reef, its history, and its future.

The project goes over the reef's discovery as well talking about the people that have made the reef home for hundreds of years. The resource also talks about how tourism and development have effected the area, and changed it over the years.

This is a great example of human impact on an ecosystem. The piece goes into how tourism, agriculture, and climate change are damaging the reef and threatening its future. It is a great site to use with students exploring human impact on biomes and the environment.