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Great Barrier Reef showed modest recovery before latest bleaching, survey finds – Sydney Morning Herald
The Great Barrier Reef was showing only modest recovery in coral cover before it was hammered by its third mass bleaching event in five years, the latest annual survey by the Australian Institute of Marine Science reveals.
Mike Emslie, the program director at AIMS, said while there were some encouraging signs of recovery picked up in the survey, the long-term trends of the reef’s health remain mostly downward.
“We’re now seeing climate-induced disruptions that are not only becoming more frequent but are affecting a greater area of the Great Barrier Reef,” Dr Emslie said.
While corals can rebound from events such as cyclones and even bleaching, it can take years to decades. “The reef is not getting that time,” he…
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