South China Sea: Scarborough Reef used as target practice.!

This is an interesting one, that I have just discovered whilst browsing.

Scarborough Reef, located 200kms to the west of Subic Bay is an area of great biodiversity:

"The U.S. military used the reef for bombing practice during the 1990 confrontation with Iraq, complicating matters. Large and unique underwater dunelike structures of organ-pipe coral tens of meters long were used as targets. Substantial areas of coral were torn apart by the explosions." Source : World Resources Institute

Short but complete article on Reefs at Risk - Scarborough Reef can be found here