GETTON MORRISH!!!!! IM SO PROUD xx
Here is some information about the Colorado river and its river system from one of my fellow geographers xx
and the reservoir will destroy someof Chinaþs finest scenery and an important source of tourism revenue.
'Glacial' growth
Environmentalists point the finger of blame at the fishing industry and the practice of bottom-trawling with drag nets.This method of fishing involves scouring the sea bed with huge nets that are some 60m-wide; they are held apart by two huge metal plates weighing up to five tonnes.
It's heavy gear, and the reefs and the coral colonies are very fragile and easily damaged," Jan Helge Fossa, chief scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, tells TVE's Earth Report programme for BBC World.
Cold corals are very slow growing. Some individuals are estimated to be up to 1,800 years old, and many reefs began forming at the end of the last Ice Age.
Damage inflicted by bottom-trawling can result in catastrophic consequences for the species living amid the reefs.