marine park

The girl was pronounced dead at a hospital on Wednesday, a day after she was found unresponsive in a pool at Discovery Cove, the Orlando marine park where visitors can swim with dolphins and tropical fish, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

For example, a recent report by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority found that more than half of 1,000 reefs analyzed out of more than 2,900 in total suffered from significant levels of bleaching, with a mere quarter being unaffected.

Authorities closed seven beaches and the nearby Buccoo Reef Marine Park tourist attraction as a precaution after the incident, according to local reports.

With thousands of islands and islets and one of the Mediterranean’s longest coastlines, Greece has said it will create one new marine park in the Ionian Sea and one in the Aegean Sea, bringing the total of marine protected areas to over 30% of its waters.

But Ankara responded with annoyance to Greece’s plan for a marine park in the Agean.