Man. Why do conservatives fucking suck no matter what country they're from. Australia just elected a centrist government after years of conservative rule. Hopefully this will change things

But we cancelled carbon trading and gave 400 million to the mates of some politicians for a 'reef fund'. Surely that would have helped?!

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)

> Paris - Despite warnings, Australia's efforts to save the Great Barrier Reef still fall short of protecting the world's largest coral reef system from pollution and climate change, experts said Monday.

> Australia had taken unprecedented steps towards the protection of the Great Barrier Reef, which the United Nations has designated a world heritage site, but more was needed to avoid the site being declared "In danger" by UNESCO, the UN agency which compiles and manages a list of heritage sites.

> "Despite the unparalleled science and management efforts" made by Australia over recent years, the Great Barrier Reef is "Significantly impacted by climate change factors", Eleanor Carter at the International Union for Conservation of Nature and UNESCO representative Hans Thulstrup said in a report based on a mission to the Reef.

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No shock to me or anyone else lol

all ive been reading for the past 4 years is they wont take action at all

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If that were thew case we wouldn't be seeing reports like those below:

https://www.aims.gov.au/information-centre/news-and-stories/highest-coral-cover-central-northern-reef-36-years

Monitoring of the reef has only been going on for 36 years. That's not a lot of data on which to be creating a doom scenario. https://phys.org/news/2022-08-great-barrier-reef-fragile-coral.html