Australia has narrowly avoided having its Great Barrier Reef placed on a list of “in danger” World Heritage sites by Unesco after taking moves to preserve the marine ecosystem. But ...
A Unesco heritage committee on Tuesday stopped short of listing Australia’s Great Barrier Reef as ... in November said the reef should be put on the danger list after frequent coral bleaching ...
The letter refers to threats to four natural properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, namely Great Barrier Reef, Shark Bay ... i.e. with specific and proven imminent danger (“ascertained ...
Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floods ...
the Great Barrier Reef could soon be officially added to the organisation's list of World Heritage in Danger. This warning underlines the urgent need to preserve this part of the world ...
Australia will contest a UNESCO draft recommendation to list the Great Barrier Reef as a world heritage site "in danger" The UNESCO report cites mass coral bleaching events in 2016 -17 and 2020 as ...
A draft report by UNESCO shows that the Great Barrier Reef is not included in the list of endangered World Heritage sites. Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been included on UNESCO's list of ...
Climate change poses the greatest threat to the world’s natural heritage, with the Great Barrier Reef now in a “critical ... species as the biggest danger to natural heritage sites.
Australia's research in Antarctica has been boosted, with Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek saying it will better protect ...
IUCN reported on concerns it has received over the Oyster Point development about which the Committee first expressed concern in 1995, and the potential damage to the World Heritage area from acid ...
But in June of this year, UNESCO threatened to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef to the World Heritage ‘In Danger’ list; a category populated predominantly by war-torn and developing nations. The final ...
THE Great Barrier Reef is under threat from industrial development and may be considered for listing as a World Heritage site "in danger" within the next year, according to a UN report.