Ifagalz

Maybe about 10 years ago, in coral reefs you would find so many different colors and species but today there has been dramatic changes, corals loosing their colors and more gray spaces can be seen throughout the coral populated areas in the world than it has ever been, this is what scientists called it “BLEACHING”.

Coral bleaching is caused by global warming, changes in the ocean temperature becoming more warmer and obviously devastating for these poor organisms…

The bleaching has caused much devastation in the water that we, humans, rarely noticed. Once the corals die,the small fish that clean the corals by eating algae, have no home to lay their eggs, they must search for new locations or just die out of malnutrition. Another result is that the small fish will become extinct and the bigger fish have no food. If there is no food for the bigger fish, they will leave their old homes, near the islands, to look for food and in the process be killed by the bigger and stronger predators.The islanders that use fish as thier basic daily meal will have a harder time catching them, also even bigger fish will die off because sooner or later fish food will be scarce.The end result is that corals,and fish will die if the corals keep bleaching at the rate they are going, that means no more fish to eat for islander.

Some ways to help the corals and other sea creatures survive are: Riding public buses,or using your bike, dont pollute the ocean with trash, Conserve the power you use at home, and more.

Thinking about Coral Bleaching and hearing my Dad talked about it, it causes me concern for my people back in the islands because for sure they will not find it easy to catch fish anymore. It would take the men longer to fish and cause a lot of headaches back home. Not only that, islanders may find it necessary to move to other places for survival.

I think the bigger nations have a huge obligation to the islands and must find ways to limit their contributions to this horrible man made phenomenon. I already said several things that we, as humans, should do to at least slow the progress of Bleaching or hopefully reverse it.

I heard my Dad talked about Guam and Hawaii reps to the Congress introducing more legislation to limit Micronesians from migrating to the US and that is sad because islanders must be afforded that opportunity to come here and go to school or work for survival. America and the bigger nations owe a lot to the poor islanders so they must stand up and help them when they need help.

Thank you for reading my post,and please, sometimes use these tips to save the sea creatures.

Island stories vary from main idea, because(I think) most island has their own topic, in which to tell or past down to their pupils. E.G my mom used to tell me stories,(that she grew up with in chuuk)most of the stories that she told me were superstitious for example, about kids getting taken by ghost, while alone at night, but my dad’s stories,(Which are from ifalik)consist mostly of cinderella like stories,or even children killing themselves, or leaving their parents because of getting abused secretly by one of the parents.My guess is that most island has their own topic to grow on.