{"id":86954,"date":"2019-08-31T17:25:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T11:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9723"},"modified":"2019-08-31T17:25:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T11:55:55","slug":"australia-downgrades-great-barrier-reef-to-very-poor-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/australia-downgrades-great-barrier-reef-to-very-poor-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia downgrades Great Barrier Reef to very poor status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority\n(GBRMPA) has released Outlook Report 2019 that examine the Great Barrier Reef\u2019s\nhealth, pressures, and likely future.<\/li><li>The long-term outlook of the reef has been downgraded\nto \u201cvery poor\u201d for the first time. <\/li><li>According to the report, the greatest threat to\nthe Reef is climate change. The other main threats are associated with coastal\ndevelopment, land-based run-off, and direct human use (such as illegal\nfishing).<\/li><li>The Great Barrier Reef is the world\u2019s largest\nand longest coral reef system. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the\ncoast of Queensland, Australia. It stretches for 2,300km from the tip of Cape\nYork in the north to Bundaberg in the south in Australia. It is home to 400\ntypes of coral, 1500 species of fish and 4000 types of molluscs. It also holds\ngreat scientific interest as the habitat of species such as the dugong and the\nlarge green turtle, which are threatened with extinction.<\/li><li>It is a World Heritage Area since 1981 (the\nworld\u2019s first reef ecosystem to be recognised by UNESCO)<\/li><li>The Australian government in 2018, announced its\nlargest-ever investment in the coral reef: over half a billion Australian\ndollars ($378 million). The\nmoney is to be used to&nbsp;<strong>counter <\/strong>water pollution,&nbsp;combat\ncoral-eating starfish, increase&nbsp;public awareness, boost&nbsp;reef monitoring, and improve the&nbsp;environmental impact of surrounding businesses<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) has released Outlook Report 2019 that examine the Great Barrier Reef\u2019s health, pressures, and likely future. The long-term outlook of the reef has been downgraded to \u201cvery poor\u201d for the first time. According to the report, the greatest threat to the Reef is climate change. The other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/australia-downgrades-great-barrier-reef-to-very-poor-status\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia downgrades Great Barrier Reef to very poor status<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4659],"class_list":["post-86954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-great-barrier-reef","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704916752},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}