Canberra: Australia's efforts to save the Great Barrier Reef are still failing to protect the world's largest coral reef system from pollution and climate change, despite warnings, experts warned Monday.
Although Australia took ground-breaking measures to protect the Great Barrier Reef, which is listed by the United Nations as a World Heritage Site, to prevent the site from being labeled "in danger" by UNESCO and There was a need for more, the United Nations organization that compiles and manages a list of heritage sites.
A government is informed by such a designation that a place may be completely removed from the World Heritage List, which is an extremely unlikely event.
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The Great Barrier Reef is "significantly affected by climate change factors," according to Eleanor Carter of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and UNESCO representative Hans Thulstrup in a report based on a mission to the reef. This is despite "unparalleled science and management efforts" made by Australia in recent years.
They claimed that the property's ability to bounce back from the effects of climate change has been severely compromised. According to Carter and Thulstrup the rock should be included in the list of "World Heritage in Danger".
Seven years ago, the Australian government announced a billion-dollar package to protect the reef in January, after releasing its "Reef 2050" plan, which was already a response to the UN downgraded threat.
According to the pressure group Climate Council, this most recent funding package is the equivalent of "putting a Band-Aid on a broken leg". In Monday's report, it said the reef's ability to recover from the effects of climate change was "significantly compromised".
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According to the report, Australian strategies in particular "lacked clear targets to address climate change" and some were not fully implemented, particularly in relation to "water quality and fisheries activities". .
Following a protracted heat wave, Australia reported in May that 91 percent of coral on the reef had bleached, a process that increases the mortality rate of affected coral. Vigorous lobbying has helped Australia narrowly avoid adding the reef to UNESCO's "at risk" list in the summer of 2021.
This year, voters ousted the administration of conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison in favor of the centre-left administration of Anthony Albanese, which has pledged to implement green policies. "A constructive dialogue is underway with the current government," a UNESCO spokesman told AFP.
Monday's report was described as "a roadmap presented to the Australian Government, which should say what it wants to do with it and produce results" by a source with direct knowledge of the situation.
The source continued, "The Great Barrier Reef can be saved, but the road is long and winding. With quick and forceful action results can be achieved.
