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Australia’s environment minister wants to ban fishers and drillers from more ocean – and avoid a culture war

Conservationists hope Murray Watt’s review of national marine parks will ‘right the wrongs’ of previous downgrade of protection

The Guardian - AU

Great Barrier Reef on the Brink: Australia's Natural Wonder Suffers Worst Coral Collapse in History

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered its steepest coral cover decline in nearly four decades, with heatwaves, storms and starfish outbreaks pushing the World Heritage site towards an irreversible tipping point.

International Business Times UK

Great Barrier Reef Suffers Most Widespread Bleaching On Record

Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record, according to a government report released Wednesday that warns the natural wonder is in dire health.

International Business Times

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Australian government to declare almost a third of its oceans ‘highly protected’ in the next five years

Murray Watt tells UN conference in France a review of Australia’s marine parks will ‘lay the foundation’ for increasing ocean protections

The Guardian - AU

‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds

More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating disease

The Guardian - AU

Parts of Great Barrier Reef record highest coral deaths due to heat, storms

Up to 72 percent of coral found dead on 12 of 19 surveyed reefs in the north of the world’s largest living structure.

Al Jazeera

Parts Of Great Barrier Reef Suffer Highest Coral Mortality On Record

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate.

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Albanese government accused of trying to ‘bury bad news’ about health of Great Barrier Reef

Major report released at 4pm on Friday with no media release or a press conference from Tanya Plibersek

The Guardian - AU

Pristine islands off Antarctic get wider protected zone

Expansion of protected seas around pristine subantarctic islands has been welcomed by conservationists, but fears remain over the impact of commercial fishing.

AAP

‘We rarely see them now’: just how vulnerable are Vanuatu’s dugongs?

A study of the sea cow population in the South Pacific islands is urgently needed, say experts, as numbers fall dramatically

The Guardian - UK

Australia's Great Barrier Reef In Grip Of 'Mass Bleaching Event'

A "mass bleaching event" is unfolding on Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef, authorities said Friday, as warming seas threaten the spectacular home to thousands of marine species.

International Business Times

Fears back-to-back cyclones may have damaged Great Barrier Reef

Strong waves and sediment-laden freshwater pushed out from river catchments may have damaged parts of reef system, experts say

The Guardian - AU

Federal and Queensland governments promise a gillnet-free Great Barrier Reef by 2027

The fishing practice has been identified as a significant danger to multiple threatened and protected marine species, including dugongs, dolphins, turtles and some sharks.

ABC News

Government plans to protect marine area the size of Germany around Macquarie Island

An area roughly the size of Germany is set to be added to Australia's protected marine zones, safeguarding the future of millions of penguins, seals and sea birds on Macquarie Island.

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The Guardian - AU

Great Barrier Reef flagged as ‘in danger’ world heritage site. What does this mean?

Scientists have made recommendation for the reef. So what did their report say, how might the government respond and what happens next?

The New Daily

‘Everything has changed’: Government rejects in-danger listing for Great Barrier Reef

The government will fight an in-danger listing for the Great Barrier Reef, saying it is working on climate change and other key threats.

ABC News

United Nations recommends Great Barrier Reef be added to World Heritage 'in danger' list

A UN delegation again recommends Australia's Great Barrier Reef be added to the World Heritage 'in danger' list, urging immediate and urgent action to protect it.

The Guardian - AU

UN mission must see coral bleaching to get ‘whole picture’ of Great Barrier Reef, experts say

Government’s reef envoy says visiting scientists ‘have to see the good and the bad’ as widespread bleaching confirmed

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Conservationists buy fishing licence in Great Barrier Reef to create net-free safe haven for dugongs

The last commercial fishing licence of its type in the reef has been bought by WWF to protect marine wildlife

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