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Marine Conservation Redirected from Ocean Conservation---Article Evaluation

Everything in this article is relevant to the topic. The article begins with an overview and goes further into detail of what's causing this, what species are being affected and the technology being used to save and study our oceans. The article focuses mainly on the breakdown of coral reefs and how humans are responsible for this. This article appears to be unbiased. While it makes the claim that humans are responsible for the breakdown of coral reefs, oil spills, and other causes of dwindling sea life, it does not push an agenda either way. It simply states facts with proper citations. The viewpoint of the Coral Reef being the biggest ocean conservation issue tends to be a bit over represented as it is one of the main points of this article. In comparison to other points of the articles, such as laws and techniques for marine conservation. The first reference I clicked on was number nine. It lead me to the bottom of the page and when I clicked that link the page was not found. The second reference I chose, number 20, was also not found. After testing out a few more references with pages not found I decided to go through all of them. Only about half of the references were still available. The citations and hyperlinks in the article work. When going to the check the "Talk" page the author answered a question as to why he characterized this as a science and he explained that it was a fairly new science. There was also a part about updated links as of January 2018, but clearly some of those references need to be updated again. The article is rated "Start Class" on the quality scale which means that the article is still in the early stages of development and may not be the best to use as a primary source. The article has been deemed of high importance.

This article discusses the human impact on a climate that is not our own, like what we have brought up in class. It also discusses new technologies that have been added to field to further these explorations. Since the article is considered a starting article, more needs to be added to it. I think more should be added into the history of marine conservation and why it is so relevant now.