Coral Bones: Status of the Great Barrier Reef

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Status of the Great Barrier Reef

Hugh Sweatman of the Australian Institute of Marine Science announces that the first large-scale survey of the status of nearshore reefs of the Great Barrier Reef is now available on line. "You will be pleasantly surprised to find the news is not all bad", he says. The summary and the report are here.

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"Mike", the world's first hydrogen bomb, vaporised Elugelap island and other parts of the Enewetak atoll on 1 November 1952. In the half century or so since then humans have destroyed around a quarter - some say a half - of all tropical coral reefs, which are one the world's richest and oldest ecosystems and provide vital benefits in over 100 countries. Will the rest be gone within another fifty years - or less? So what?

Please note that this blog is now pretty much 'on hold', with only occasional updates since January 2008. For notes on the Anthropocene extinction and what comes next see The Book of Barely Imagined Beings.

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