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Humanity is facing extermination at the hands of a ruthless enemy. Jan 05, 2018 byron bay, australia the great barrier reef is literally being eaten alive. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. The series is mostly set around the 31st century, on a distant world dubbed safehold where a group of humans are in hiding from the gbaba, an alien enemy responsible for the end of all other human civilization. Great barrier reef food pyramid animals dugong green seaturtle chelonia mydas domain. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, earthlike safehold, to try to rebuild. Captain mateus fofao rolled out of bed as the urgent.
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