The beginning of the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz starts off in black and white, but after about 20 minutes, it becomes an explosion of stunning colors. It is arguably one of the most strikingly colorful, brilliant films of all time. But imagine if that switch from black and white to multi-color never happened. Would we still so fondly remember The Wizard of Oz over 80 years later? Now imagine that your television screen stops showing moving, colored images and instead projects only a sterile, black and white freeze frame. Such a dull, lifeless image is far from what we associate with this Academy Award-winning masterpiece. Well, without efforts to protect and save it, the Great Barrier Reef, one of the Earth’s natural masterpieces, will actually face this fate, losing all of its vibrancy, both in color and of life.