The waters surrounding Malaysia, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the Philippines play host to a colourful array of wildlife including marine turtles, 2,000 varieties of reef fish and nearly 600 different species of coral. This delicate ecosystem also contains an abundance of tuna, fueling a fishing frenzy that is jeopardizing the survival of this underwater paradise. The WWF notes that careless fishing methods involving gillnets, dynamite and cyanide poisoning are dangerously depleting the fish and turtle populations while destroying the coral reefs.
