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Title
Australia needs a wake-up call
Author(s)
Shumway, Nicole; Maron, Martine; Watson, James E. M.
Published
2017
Publisher
Science
Abstract
Whether Australia's Great Barrier Reef will be placed on the World Heritage “in danger” list will likely be decided by July. Australia was given a conditional reprieve from an “in danger” classification in 2015 (1) to implement the Reef 2050 long-term sustainability plan (2). Soon after, in 2016, the largest climate-induced bleaching event on record caused at least 22% coral mortality in the Great Barrier Reef, which had already been listed in poor condition for the fifth year in a row (3) and was suffering from ?50% loss of long-term coral cover (4).
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