Apr
19
How do farming practices affect the dugong?
rosiecaitlin asked:
I am doing a project on the great barrier reef and an animal in there. I chose the dugong and now have to find out how farming practices affect the dugong and the great barrier reef.
I am doing a project on the great barrier reef and an animal in there. I chose the dugong and now have to find out how farming practices affect the dugong and the great barrier reef.
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I don’t know where this reef is located but farming can affect it in many ways. If it is close to land, chemical run offs from sprays and such could hurt it, but more likely the run offs from large ranches, pig farms etc, can hurt it. In streams the large amount of run off from wastes of animals can change the environment of the water and start making large algae blooms that suffocate other life in the streams. Run off from a large amount of pig excretments can cause something called red tide.