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‘Humanity is failing’: latest report on the Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef will continue to deteriorate, largely due to climate change, and the window to secure its future is rapidly closing. That is the sobering conclusion of a major new report into the state of the reef. Here is the Executive Summary of that Report: Executive summary The window of opportunity to secure a positive future for the Great Barrier Reef (the Reef) is closing rapidly. The Reef remains a vast and spectacular ecosystem and one of the...

Great Barrier Reef good news & bad

Coral has recovered from storms and bleaching events to record levels across much of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, a survey has found. The reef’s northern and central parts have the highest amount of coral cover since monitoring began 36 years ago. But coral cover in the southern part of the reef has decreased. The new coral is particularly vulnerable – meaning the progress could be quickly undone by climate change and other threats, officials say. Each year the Australian Institute...

Great Barrier Reef “severe coral bleaching event” IS happening NOW

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority released this important “Health update” yesterday … A sixth bleaching event has been confirmed in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) according to a new aerial survey. Such a “bleaching event”  was recently predicted – see LearnFromNature post  The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in conjunction with the Australian Institute of Marine Science completed aerial surveys across 750 reefs in the GBR. They found that the bleaching was significantly consistent with heat stress being...

Great Barrier Reef is amazing

What makes the ‘Great Barrier Reef” great?   “The Great Barrier Reef – a world heritage site- is a site of remarkable variety and beauty on the north-east coast of Australia. It contains the world’s largest collection of coral reefs, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc. It also holds great scientific interest as the habitat of species such as the dugong (‘sea cow’) and the large green turtle, which are threatened with...