![]() ![]() The WHC will next consider the issue at a 2015 meeting. “We take this very seriously and have committed a great deal of human and financial resources to ensuring that we do meet concerns,” federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop told reporters today. Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage threatįollowing that, the 348,000sq.km Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area was put on threat of being listed as a “ World Heritage Site in danger” – a major international embarrassment for Australia and a dubious distinction shared by few other developed nations. In 2012 the World Heritage Committee (WHC) expressed concerns over the expansion of Queensland port developments, as well a variety of other impacts (such as bleaching and the invasive crown-of-thorns starfish), which have seen coral cover on the reef halve since the 1980s. Sand, clay and rock sediments damage reef sites that they are dumped on, but can also drift for up to 100km. Dredging has occurred in coastal waters along the 2300km-long reef to allow large coal, gas and other resource carriers to access ports.
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