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Take Only Photos, Leave Only Bubbles
Use mooring buoys, not anchors
Do not chase or touch the marine life

• Buoyancy Control
• Improve your buoyancy control when diving
• Wear a floatation device when snorkelling
• Lie flat in the water and keep your legs straight
• Kick from the hips rather than the knees
• Do not kick up sand with your fins
• Do not touch, stand or rest on corals

• Litter
• Fish and reptiles such as turtles can mistake
  plastic bags and cigarettes for food, which can
  be fatal
• Batteries release toxic chemicals into the water
  poisoning the marine life and corals
• Always take your rubbish with you and dispose of
  it properly

Reef Facts

• Corals are living organisms which evolved 200
  million years ago, making humans very young with
  only 10,000 years on the Earth

• Corals grow incredibly slowly, no more than 10cm
  per year. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is
  the longest reef extending 2,300km, and has taken
  millions of years to build.

• Seafood Restaurants
• Boycott restaurants which serve dishes of
  endangered species such as turtle soup or steak,
  shark steak and shark fin soup

• Coral reefs cover only 0.5 of the worlds ocean
  floor, but are home to 25 of all marine species
  on the planet

• There are 700 species of corals worldwide
  providing habitats to 4,000 species of fish

• Up to 35 million people are dependent on the
  global reef economy which is valued at 29.8
  BILLION US/year!

• Greenfins
• Choose Greenfins accredited dive operators
• For more information go to
• www.greenfins-thailand.org
• If you see any damage to the reef, littering or
  bad conduct please inform
• info_at_greenfins-thailand.org

• Feeding Fish
• It is bad practice to feed reef fish as it
  changes their feeding behaviour and they stop
  eating algae
• This then overgrows the corals and kills the reefs

• The coral reef protects the coast from storms and
  tsunamis

• At present 20 of coral reefs are effectively
  destroyed!
• 24 are surviving but in critical condition
  and
• under imminent collapse!
• 26 are threatened by mans activities!

Learn about and Respect the reef
Do not buy souvenirs of coral or marine life
www.projects-abroad.org Tel [phone]