{"id":1976,"date":"2015-04-14T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T07:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:59:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:59:31","slug":"view-on-the-destruction-of-the-worlds-great-coral-reefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/04\/view-on-the-destruction-of-the-worlds-great-coral-reefs\/","title":{"rendered":"View on the destruction of the world\u2019s great coral reefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>(The Guardian)<\/strong>\u00a0In a few weeks, members of Unesco\u2019s world heritage committee will meet in Bonn to discuss a simple, but disturbing proposition: that Australia\u2019s Great Barrier Reef, the world\u2019s largest coral reef system, be listed as being \u201cin danger\u201d. The reef, worth an estimated $Aus5bn (\u00a32.6bn) a year in tourism to the nation, is a world heritage site and contains more than 400 types of coral and 1,500 species of fish. Set in turquoise waters off the coast of Queensland, the 1,400-mile reef is one of the planet\u2019s greatest wonders, but is now being eroded at an alarming rate.<\/p>\n<p>Read whole comment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/apr\/12\/observer-editorial-great-barrier-reef-destruction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australia\u2019s Great Barrier Reef, the world\u2019s largest coral reef system, might be listed as being \u201cin danger\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534],"tags":[25,11],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>View on the destruction of the world\u2019s great coral reefs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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