Due to the warming climate, the Great Barrier Reef along the state of Queensland, east of Australia, is endangered. Today, the Australian authorities are calling for help scientists in the hope of stopping this phenomenon by putting in the balance 1.3 million euros.

At over 2,300 kilometers long and 348,000 square kilometers in size, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest ecosystem of coral reefs in the world. This jewel, which surfers consider to be the 8th wonder of the world, was declared a World Heritage Site in 1981 by UNESCO. The Great Barrier is made up of more than 900 islands and 2,900 coral reefs.

These reefs are composed of billions of tiny organisms: polyp corals - 400 different species - in which there are more than 1,600 species of fish, 4,000 species of molluscs, six species of sea turtles (out of the seven known and nearly 240 bird species according to UNESCO, making it one of the richest natural ecosystems on Earth.

Endangered Corals

But the largest living structure on the planet has been bleached for several years and some of them, very severe, cause its disappearance.

The four most important episodes occurred in 1998, in 2002, in 2016, 93% of the corals were reached with 22% mortality during the austral summer, and in 2017, the occurrence of a new episode of bleaching. has left no chance for corals to recover.

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