Reefscapes

Life on the Barrier Reef

Submitted 3/10/2006 By trappleton Views 11397 Comments 0 Updated 20/11/2006

Australia's Great Barrier Reef hosts some of the most diverse and unusual life on the planet. It is delicate, however, and a temperature increase of just a few degrees could mean bleaching and death not just of the coral, but of all the life that depends on it as well.

Photographer: T R Appleton
Photographer: T R Appleton
Photographer: T R Appleton

Photographer: T R Appleton
Photographer: T R Appleton
Photographer: Adrianne Bonafede

Photographer: Adrianne Bonafede
Photographer: Adrianne Bonafede
Photographer: Adrianne Bonafede