🏖️Anthropogenic Impacts (MAR)

• Pollution (i.e. runoff, sewage, soil, air, noise, chemicals).

• Overfishing, bycatch, and unsustainable fishing practices.

• Climate change and ocean acidification.

• Coral bleaching events.

• Unsustainable tourism practices (i.e. mass tourism, physical damage).

• Unsustainable coastal development practices.

• Coral Diseases.

• Biodiversity loss.

• Invasive species.

• Habitat fragmentation/destruction.

• Shipping and boating activities.

• Lack of environmental law applications.