The back-to-back bleaching events and “extraordinary rapidity” of climate change have pushed Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to a point of no return. Experts claimed that the largest reef system in the world has been damaged beyond repair and can no longer be saved.
In the recent Reef 2050 Plan Independent Expert Panel conducted in Brisbane, experts voice out their concern about the seriousness of the damage taken by the reef and concluded that the severe bleaching event in 2016 has fundamentally changed the reef system.
“We’re very concerned about what this means for the Great Barrier Reef itself and what it means for the communities and industries that depend on it,” said Russell Reichelt,…
