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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Graham Readfearn

Expert panel calls for urgent rethink on Great Barrier Reef management amid ‘unremitting’ climate crisis

A colony of mushroom leather coral grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns
The Great Barrier Reef is ‘in a transition driven by greenhouse gases emitted to levels unprecedented in 800,000 years’, an independent expert panel has said. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Leading national experts on the Great Barrier Reef have called for an urgent reassessment of the way the world’s biggest reef system is managed, saying current approaches are too inflexible in the face of “unremitting global warming.”

An established independent expert panel, chaired by the former chief scientist Ian Chubb, wrote to the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, saying “business as usual” is no longer an option.

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