Attention United Nations: don't be fooled by Australia's latest report on the Great Barrier Reef
- Written by Jon C. Day, PSM, Post-career PhD candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
For some years, Australia has been on notice: the world is watching how we care for the Great Barrier Reef. The iconic natural wonder is the largest living organism on the planet. But its health is deteriorating.
In 2017 UNESCO, the United Nations body that granted the reef world heritage status, asked Australia to report back on how the reef was...