Millennium Atoll

This map shows us that Millennium Island is an atoll that is long and narrow. Atoll Millennium, Kiribati (Caroline Island).

Millennium atoll: An unspoilt eco-system

Milennium is a secluded central Pacific island of the Republic of Kiribati and belongs to the Southern Line Islands. It is one of the few relatively untouched marine eco-systems left on the sea canal. It is fenced in high and was characterised by net-shaped cliffs in the middle of the lake and surrounding cliffs at the edge of the Atolls.

Depths peaked at 33. 3 metres in the centre of the lake, averaging between 8. 8 and 13. In the lowest areas large decks of Favia matthaaii were found, which probably formed a basis on which the dominating coral (Acropora spp.) developed into a net-like one.

Benthian seaweed cooperatives mainly comprised crust seaweed (CCA), microfilamentary lawn seaweed and scattered stains of Halimeda and Caulerpapp. It is probably an important home for a number of important types of livelihoods, such as the black tip sharks and the Napoleon wrasses, which are widely used in other parts of the globe but were widespread in the Millennium Bay.

It is also rich in Tridacna maxa (giant mussels). This is an ideal place for a relatively unspoiled marinelife. Like the majority of marine life around the globe, the populations of the lagoons of Millennium can be endangered by climatic changes and the associated global warming, ocean degradation and rising as well as the occasional depletion of indigenous resources, which is hard to control and implement due to the secluded area.

The remoteness of Millennium has made it possible to stay one of the few almost untouched marine eco-systems in the worid, but it is essential that this eco-system is protected so that it can live for coming generation. Babycorals planted in the Sekisei Refuge in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan as part of a programme of recovery from reefs, are constantly increasing, according to the Ministry of Environment and Tokyo University of Marine.....

A half centur y after the last earth-shattering nuclear strike that shaken the bikini's Pacific adrenaline, rebloom the world. However, some types of algae seem to be localised. Wrecks on naval vessels on the sea wall can intensify the infestation of undesirable marine life, according to a recent US Geological Survey PLoS ONE survey.

This undesirable types can totally pass the riff..... Investigators have uncovered the crucial importance of a scarce bats' trout, Platax pinatus, in encouraging the reintegration of a troubled reindeer in a recent research project that highlights advances in our knowledge of the basics of retrieving corals.... If the mouth of corals gets full of sandy water, corals can be drowned.

This is the latest amazing proof that emerged from research on the likely destiny of marine life under the effects of climatic changes and the rise in the ARC Centre of Excellence..... Researchers have found that catfish are in the middle of a rapidly declining population and that "no-take zones" - areas where fish are forbidden - are protecting fish, but only if they comply with the no-take rules.....

Climatic changes and forest fires - how do we know if there is a connection? Not only does climatic changes bring dryer summer but also hotter wells. Syracuse University scientists are looking at the geological past to forecast the effects of the effects of climate changes. Amid a record-breaking worldwide hot spell, a recent cosmic case story was presented by an unprecedentedly frightening report: that even when the planet reaches credit, "greenhouse earth" terms are likely to continue to take hold.....