Currently, 46 World Heritage sites, 20 of which are natural, are on the List of World Heritage in Danger. In 2021, UNESCO considered adding the Great Barrier Reef to the list. This brought an ...
"The listing of a site as World Heritage in Danger ... the Great Barrier Reef had been downgraded. "The UNESCO process has been appalling," Morrison told Australian radio station 4BC on Thursday.
The program’s surveys revealed a significant decrease in shallow coral cover beginning in 2002. Reef-building coral at the Hanauma preserve form a barrier across the entire bay, separating the shallow ...
One of the world's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometres in a ... particularly in the management of a World Heritage Area.' The Times Higher Education Supplement ...
Don't miss out on the headlines from Mackay. Followed categories will be added to My News. Part of the state government’s $3.9 million investment, the latest vessel moorings will be located at ...
The Central Queensland Coal Project is very close to the Great Barrier Reef, which has been a World Heritage site since 1981 ... In 2021, UNESCO proposed classifying the reef as “in danger.” The mine ...
Now Hale, who says she forged a connection with the land and the sea while growing up on the northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef ... protecting cultural heritage sites, sustaining waterways ...
Tourism, meet science. This is what a visit to the Great Barrier Reef looks like today, where research and commerce work side by side to find solutions. Wavelength is one of six commercial ...
Along the way, they visit coastal towns and ports, from southwest Victoria right up to the Great Barrier Reef, putting on a show for whale-watching devotees before returning south again.
Rummer said UNESCO's recommendation to place the Great Barrier Reef on the World Heritage "in danger" list underlines the fact that "we need to do more, both urgently and rapidly, to cut emissions".
According to the think tank Deloitte Access Economics, the Great Barrier Reef has an ... Previous attempts to place the reef on the List of World Heritage in Danger have been fiercely opposed ...