CORAL TRIANGLE BIDIVERSITY THE MOST AMAZING ON EARTH - 75% KNOWN SPECIES

THE CORAL TRIANGLE MOST IMPORTANT : NHM

The Coral Triangle is a part of ocean spanning six million square kilometres, over Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste.

Although it's far less well-known than other places with abundant corals, like the Great Barrier Reef, the Coral Triangle is home to 30% of the world's reefs. In fact, when it comes to biodiversity, it is like nowhere else on Earth. More than 75% of the known coral species live there, as well as 37% of the world's coral reef fish.

It is home to six of the world's seven species of marine turtle, as well as blue whales, sperm whales, dolphins and dugongs.

MIGRATING MERMAIDS ARE WARM WATER DUGONGS

"Also known as sea cows, these herbivores enjoy lives as uneventful as their land-based bovine counterparts: Because they consume plants living in the intertidal zone, they have no need to dive to great depths in search of food so the waters they most inhabit are shallow and warm. And they are so large that they are not threatened by any other animals, except tiger sharks which only occasionally venture into shallow water..." Rachel Sullivan

Sailors may have seen sea cows and thought "mermaids," but only if they were hallucinating!