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UN team says Great Barrier Reef should be on heritage 'danger' list

The Great Barrier Reef, on the north-east coast of Australia, has been on Unesco’s World Heritage List since 1981. AFP - SARAH LAI

A United Nations-backed mission is recommending that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef be added to the list of endangered World Heritage sites.

A report published this week warned that without “ambitious, rapid and sustained” climate action, the world’s largest coral reef would not survive.

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