The coral reef is the richest resource in the ecology and the ocean's gene pool. Although the surface area of Taiwan's coral reefs is less than 0.1 % of the world's total, the reefs contain one third of the world's coral species.
變色的海底花園珊瑚礁是生態中最豐富的資源，也是海洋的生物基因庫，而台灣的珊瑚礁面積雖不及全球千分之一，卻擁有三分之一的珊瑚礁物種。