Parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef show fragile comeback
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Parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef show fragile comeback

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Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reefs sees the largest amount of cover in 36 years, new report says. Two-thirds of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef showed the largest amount of coral cover in 36 years, according to an official long-term monitoring programme but the reef remains vulnerable to increasingly frequent mass bleaching. The recovery in the central and northern stretches of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO world heritage-listed reef contrasted with the southern region, where there was a loss of coral cover due to crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks, the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences said in its annual report on Thursday. The publication of the report comes as UNESCO considers whether to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, following a visit by UNESCO experts in March. On the northern region, average hard coral cover grew to 36 percent in 2022 from a low of 13 percent in 2017, while on the central region hard coral cover increased to 33 percent from a low of 12 percent in 2019 – the highest levels recorded for both regions since the institute began monitoring the reef in 1985.

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