Australia’s newly appointed Special Envoy for the Great Barrier Reef doesn’t think the World Heritage Area needs saving. Warren Entsch, a Queensland MP for the Liberal National Party, has dismissed the notion that the reef is currently facing a serious existential threat or that coral bleaching has worsened in recent years.
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| Great Barrier Reef Special Envoy doesn't believe the reef needs saving. |
"We don't need to 'save the reef',” he told SBS. “The reef is functioning well. There are lots of challenges. We need to continue to manage it and meet all those challenges… [but] bleaching has been happening forever."
Read the story from Vice by Gavin Butler - “Australia’s New Envoy for the Great Barrier Reef Says it Doesn’t Need Saving.”
(Oh dear! We have put the fox in charge of the hen house - Robert McLean)
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