The World Wide Fund for Nature, has announced that a coral reef spanning several hundred acres and teeming with fish has been discovered off the coast of Thailand.According to media reports WWF divers found the reef in January, after being tipped off by local fisherman. It is described as a healthy, 667-acre reef in southern Thailand with over 30 genera of hard corals, and at least 112 species of fish.
WWF, says they discovered a type of parrot fish first discovered in Sri Lanka and never before seen in Thailand, and a species of the sweet lips fish previously only found in the Similan Islands.
