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Learn more about reefs and rights

Learn more about reefs and rights by watching the videos below.

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This video explains why coral are called hunters and how they work with algae to make food. You can also find out why warming oceans impact coral in Hawaii as well as Australia.

Here is the behind the Daniel Billy v Australia case. Find out why problems in the Torres Strait Islands are so bad that inhabitants took Australia to the Human Rights Committee for violating their human rights.

Learn more: In this video Daniel Billy explains how his island is crucial to his culture and traditional ways of life.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tvQBjoCocW0&pp=ygUYRGFuaWVsIGJpbGx5IHYgYXVzdHJhbGlh

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Become a coral expert and learn about the science behind coral

Learn more: Want to do more? Be inspired by this story of life as a scientist

Collections :: Coral Reefs and Climate Change | Smithsonian Learning Lab

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This material on this website is protected by copyright. Please do not reproduce the material on this website outside of the explicit permissions set out on the Teacher's Materials page. The data may not be used in data mining processes to train AI models. Parts of the text draw on research published in this article Camp, E. F., Braverman, I., Wilkinson, G., & Voolstra, C. R. (2024). Coral reef protection is fundamental to human rights. Global Change Biology, 30(9), e17512.  The photographs on this website are taken by Annabelle Doheney and Hadley England and reproduced with their permission. 

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