Coral Reef And Reef Fish, Raja Ampat, Indian Ocean, Indonesia Stock Photo

Despite periods of coral bleaching, the corals in the Raja Ampat area are at present date still relatively healthy and intact. Marine acidification as a result of global climate change and sea level rise, habitat destruction and marine pollution, particularly from agricultural runoff all threaten coral in the World's Oceans. The Coral Triangle between the Southern Pacific ocean and the Indian Ocean are protected as Marine Protected Areas and life thrives here, in an area where powerful ocean currents bring nutrients from the Pacific to the Indian ocean through the Dampier Strait