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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...

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