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Pretty stunned by just
the diversity here. This

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isn't an icidd dominated
place at all, there is

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just an amazing
assortment of corals

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here. Some of these are
very old organisms,

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possibly centuries to
millenium- that makes

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these ecosystems
particularily vulnerable

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so if you were to
disturb them through

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destructive fishing
practices or things like

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that it would take a
very long time for these

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to recover. Diverse
communities are thought

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to be a lot more
resilient so if you have

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any kind of impact, a
diverse community is

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thought to be much
better equipped to

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overcome such adverse
impacts.