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Flat White

AIMS reef monitoring the most extensive in the world

19 August 2022

12:00 PM

19 August 2022

12:00 PM

I write to firmly contest the claims of last week’s opinion article regarding the annual survey of the Great Barrier Reef, Healthy Great Barrier Reef, healthy environmental scandal, 10 Aug 22.

The Australian Institute of Marine Science has been very clear that the Reef recovery is good news, but the threats of acute disturbances are accelerating, and considerable coral loss from a passing cyclone or another severe coral bleaching event are only ever one summer away.

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