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The Great Barrier Reef threatened with extinction

2022-05-20T16:16:26.504Z


REPORT - According to a report, 91% of the coral has suffered some form of bleaching. In the case of Magnetic Island, it is even called “extreme”.


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A radiant day begins on Magnetic Island, an island located about ten kilometers from Townsville, in the north of Queensland, and which in many respects fulfills all the criteria of a tropical paradise.

Its dense vegetation is home to a large population of koalas, hanging in the trees.

It is lined with many bays and coves, and only a few meters after setting foot in the water, coral reefs populated by multicolored fish are available to divers equipped with a mask and a snorkel.

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Taylor, who came with her husband from New South Wales to this region bordered by the Great Barrier Reef, now hopes to “

see a sea turtle

”.

This will be the case a few minutes later, one of them having decided to take her head out of the water to get some air right next to the boat on which the couple and about twenty others are. tourists.

This region was however, last March, at the epicenter of the last episode of…

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Source: lefigaro

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