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The Beige Barrier Reef?

20 November 2019

4:03 PM

20 November 2019

4:03 PM

A key claim in a January 2016 article in the scientific journal, Nature, is that there are no longer any living colonies of Acropora – a particular type of coral – at Stone Island off Bowen Harbour in the Whitsundays, and that other corals are now covered in mud.

Claims of catastrophic coral bleaching have been terrible for local tourism, driving people away. 

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