49: Saving for Seeing Under the Sea

I was looking at an ocean mural I never quite finished this morning and thinking maybe I should get on that 15 years later. I thought I would start adding some coral detail to the reef bases, so when I started to look for today's nonprofit, I thought let's do something for the ocean. The Ocean Foundation has a nifty approach, "What do you want to do for the ocean?
Tell us and we'll take care of the rest." (https://www.oceanfdn.org) The Currents page (http://chooseyourcurrent.org) made me want to pick one of everything, but I did stick with coral. Aside from being stunningly gorgeous, "CORAL REEFS ONLY COVER ABOUT 0.2% OF THE OCEAN FLOOR, YET SUPPORT OVER 25% OF MARINE LIFE." (http://chooseyourcurrent.org/currents/coral-reefs/) Over 3/4 of the coral reefs are threatened by things like trash, toxic chemicals, unsustainable development and more. Yet, the reefs serve as a protection for so many underwater life forms as well as the lands nearby. Also, I haven't been to a coral reef, so I'd like them to exist when I finally get to travel to one. There is much on, over, under, and around our world that need our protection, but today it's The Ocean Foundation for coral, even if it was hard not to click on penguins or turtles.

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