Qualla: The Amazon of the Seas https://qualla.com/coral-triangle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/z/e/w/coral-triangle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Amazon of the Seas https://qualla.com/coral-triangle The Amazon of the Seas: Introduction https://qualla.com/coral-triangle/ Photo credit Nhobgood Nick Hobgood, CC BY-SA 3.0. Somewhere in the waters off Raja Ampat, a coelacanth drifts through the darkness at 200 meters depth. This prehistoric fish, unchanged for 400 million years, was thought extinct until 1938. That it lives here, in the Coral Triangle, is almost redundant. Everything lives here. The roughly triangular expanse of tropical ocean stretching from the Philippines to the Solomon Islands to the eastern tip of Timor contains more marine species per square kilometer than anywhere else on the planet. Scientists call it the global epicenter of marine biodiversity. Divers call it the best water on Earth. The 120 million people who depend on its reefs for food call it home.

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/z/e/w/coral-triangle-wp/qzew-the-amazon-of-the-seas-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Amazon of the Seas: Numbers That Defy Proportion https://qualla.com/coral-triangle/ Photo credit Brocken Inaglory, CC BY-SA 4.0. The statistics are almost absurd. The Coral Triangle covers roughly 5.7 million square kilometers of ocean, about 1.6 percent of the planet's total oceanic area. Within that fraction live 76 percent of all known shallow-water reef-building coral species, more than 605 of the worl...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/z/e/w/coral-triangle-wp/qzew-the-amazon-of-the-seas-numbers-that-defy-proportion.mp3 0:06 2 full The Amazon of the Seas: Why Here and Nowhere Else https://qualla.com/coral-triangle/ Photo credit NoniMF, CC BY-SA 4.0. Scientists have debated for decades why biodiversity peaks so dramatically in this particular patch of ocean. Three competing theories offer different answers. The 'centre of origin' model proposes that species evolved here first and then dispersed outward to colonize peripheral ...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/z/e/w/coral-triangle-wp/qzew-the-amazon-of-the-seas-why-here-and-nowhere-else.mp3 0:06 3 full The Amazon of the Seas: Life in the Deep and the Shallows https://qualla.com/coral-triangle/ Photo credit Nhobgood Nick Hobgood, CC BY-SA 3.0. A joint Indonesian-American expedition in 2008 revealed that the Coral Triangle's richness extends far below the sunlit shallows. Along the western ridge of the survey area, scientists discovered underwater active volcanoes at depths of 3,800 meters and approximately 40 previousl...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/z/e/w/coral-triangle-wp/qzew-the-amazon-of-the-seas-life-in-the-deep-and-the-shallows.mp3 0:06 4 full The Amazon of the Seas: A Reef Under Siege https://qualla.com/coral-triangle/ Photo credit Adrian Pingstone, Public domain. The Coral Triangle feeds more people than any other marine ecosystem, and that dependency is precisely what threatens it. Approximately 2.25 million fishers work these waters, and the pressure shows. Destructive fishing practices, including blast fishing with homemade explosives ...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/z/e/w/coral-triangle-wp/qzew-the-amazon-of-the-seas-a-reef-under-siege.mp3 0:06 5 full The Amazon of the Seas: Six Nations, One Ocean https://qualla.com/coral-triangle/ Photo credit Alkaubraa, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 2007, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono proposed a multilateral partnership to protect the Coral Triangle, bringing together Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste in the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs...

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