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Reefs at WA’s Rowley Shoals make surprise recovery from ‘significant’ coral bleaching – ABC News
Reefs in Western Australia’s Rowley Shoals “dodge a bullet” by making a remarkable recovery from coral bleaching — but scientists fear the long-term outlook might…
It was a depressing, if expected inevitability when Western Australia’s Rowley Shoals showed the first signs of mass coral bleaching earlier this year, but a follow-up survey has found a remarkable recovery looks likely to preserve the reef’s near-pristine health at least for now.
Tom Holmes, the marine monitoring coordinator at the WA Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, said that while his team was still processing the data, it appeared the coral had pulled off an “amazing”…
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