The Great Barrier Reef is ‘dead’ at the age of 25 million years - claims writer

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
 Authority said that during 2016
the reef died “due to the worst
mass bleaching event on record”.

THE Great Barrier Reef has been declared dead at 25 million years old by an environmentalist writer.

The incredible Coral Sea wilderness, which stretches for roughly 2250km over an area of roughly 2150km, has finally succumbed to bleaching writes Rowan Jacobsen, according to The Sun.

The icon of the natural world is bigger than the whole of the United Kingdom and is composed of more than 2900 individual reefs and 900 islands.

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