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Great Barrier Reef campaign: scientists call scrapping coal projects
2015-03-22 21:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias leading coral reef scientists have called for huge coalmining and port developments in Queensland to be scrapped in order to avoid permanent damage to the Great Barrier Reef. The Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) report, compiled by experts from five Australian universities and submitted to the United Nations, warns that industrialising the Great Barrier Reef coastline will cause further stress to what is already a fragile ecosystem. The report notes that nine proposed mines...
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Great Barrier Reef: Australian PM Tony Abbott saving World Heritage site his top priority
2015-03-22 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A plan to save Australias Great Barrier Reef from destruction was announced yesterday as Prime Minister Tony Abbott sought to persuade the United Nations that the World Heritage site was not in danger. The reef has lost about 50 per cent of its coral in the past 30 years, due partly to ocean acidification caused by greenhouse gas emissions; the dumping of spoil from the dredging of sea channels; and pollution from agricultural chemicals. Plagues of venomous crown-of-thorns starfish, which eat...
Plan ensures Great Barrier Reef future: Australia
2015-03-21 08:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australia released its long-term blueprint to save the Great Barrier Reef Saturday, with Prime Minister Tony Abbott saying protecting the World Heritage site was a priority. The 35-year plan for the major tourist attraction off the Queensland coast includes a complete and permanent ban on the dumping of capital dredge material in the area and sets targets to improve water quality and marine life populations. Abbott said the plan would "secure Australia's majestic Great Barrier Reef as a place...
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Australia: Abbott unveils plan to save Great Barrier Reef
2015-03-21 07:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia has submitted its long-term plan to arrest the decline of the Great Barrier Reef, with Tony Abbott stressing to the international community that the government is utterly committed to the reefs preservation. The Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan has been compiled to allay concerns from Unesco over the fading health of the reef, with the organisations world heritage committee set to meet in June to decide whether the reef is to be listed as in danger. The plan sets a number...
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IMO agrees ships routeing measures to protect Australias Great Barrier Reef
2015-03-19 01:00:00| Ship Technology
The IMO Sub-Committee on Navigation, Communications and Search and Rescue (NCSR) has agreed new ship routeing measures to protect sensitive areas in the south-west Coral Sea, off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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