The Great Barrier Reef is the worlds largest living organism. An expanse of coral the size of Italy, home to an extraordinary array of sealife living in an interconnected ecosystem of brilliant colour and bewildering complexity. The reef can literally be seen from space as it stretches along the Queensland coastline for 2, 300 kms. Despite its gargantuan size, the Reef is extremely fragile. The survival of its precious ecosystem is under sustained threat from a variety of sources. Increased industrialisation within the World Heritage Area is suffocating the Reef, exacerbating the effects of climate change, and diminishing the Reefs resilience to natural threats such as cyclones. The Reef has lost half of its hard coral cover in the last thirty years.... https://getup.org.au/campaigns/great-barrier-reef--3/save-the-reef/save-the-reef #QldVotes #Fightforthereef
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 23:45:51 +0000
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