Hughes and other researchers have said the decision was denying the scientific evidence. UNESCO, which awarded the reef World Heritage status, last year stopped short of placing the natural wonder on a list of sites in danger because of the impacts of climate change, after lobbying by the Australian government. football fields would fit inside the marine park. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, which conducted the surveys using helicopters and small planes over the past week, said on its website that the bleached coral could still recover if the waters cool, as happened in 2020 when there was relatively little coral die-off despite the most widespread bleaching ever. of World Heritage Listed area, which is slightly more than the 344,400 km2 Great Barrier Reef Marine Park area because it also includes some 980 islands, internal waters, intertidal areas and other state waters. Their loss hurts the reef’s ability to provide a habitat for fish and mitigate coastal flooding.
But she says there is evidence that the coral reef species dying off in the greatest numbers during mass bleaching are those with a physically complex, more three-dimensional structure. Whether the cumulative impact of more frequent mass bleaching events makes coral more vulnerable to new bleaching is still being researched, says Reverter. Read more: Inside the fight to save the Great Barrier Reef from climate change
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