The Great Barrier Reef, a wonder in danger for UNESCO

sydney

To discover

• OUR FILE - Tobacco: how to get out of it?

To marvel at the splendor of the Great Barrier Reef, in a few years will we have to content ourselves with watching Finding

or old programs by Commander Cousteau?

This is suggested by the report of the experts sent by Unesco and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on the spot last March, which recommends, because of the

undergone by the largest coral reef of the world, to place it on the list of World Heritage Sites in Danger.

During their observation mission, which lasted ten days, the Great Barrier Reef was, for the fourth time in six years, and for the first time during La Niña, a climatic phenomenon manifesting itself in the Pacific Ocean and which characterized by abnormally low temperatures, victim of a wave of massive coral bleaching.

Read alsoThe Great Barrier Reef threatened with extinction

They note that

This article is for subscribers only.

You have 82% left to discover.

Pushing back the limits of science is also freedom.

Keep reading your article for €0.99 for the first month

I ENJOY IT

Already subscribed?

Login