Quick Glance: Great Barrier Reef: UN panel proposes adding Great Barrier Reef to "in danger" list
- "The resilience of the (reef) to recover from climate change impacts is substantially compromised," according to a report by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) scientists who visited the reef in March.
- Tanya Plibersek, the Environment Minister, said the government would lobby UNESCO not to classify the reef as endangered because climate change threatens all coral reefs worldwide.
- "We'll clearly make the point to UNESCO that there is no need to single the Great Barrier Reef out in this way," Plibersek said during a press conference.
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