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How crying wolf over the Reef wrecks North Queensland

11 March 2020

3:30 PM

11 March 2020

3:30 PM

As passengers come into land at the Brisbane airport, few realise they are flying over a reef that has more marine diversity than any single reef on the Great Barrier Reef. The Flinders Reef is just 30 kilometres from the mainland. 

More people live in Brisbane than in the catchment area of the entire Great Barrier Reef.

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