YDNEY: Three leading coral reef scientists say business as usual is not an option for the Great Barrier Reef.
In their paper entitled Securing the future of the Great Barrier Reef, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the scientists say all stressors on the Reef need to be reduced for it to recover.
“We need to move beyond the gloom and doom to identify how the decline of the Great Barrier Reef can be turned around,” co-author from the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University (JCU), Terry Hughes said.
“Our paper shows that every major stressor on the Reef has been escalating for decades – more and more fishing, pollution, coastal development, dredging, and now for the past 20 years we’re also seeing the impacts of climate change,” Professor Hughes said.
Co-author, Jon Day, also from the ARC Centre for Coral Reef Studies at JCU said an obvious first step was to prevent unsustainable growth in each of the stressors to reduce their cumulative impact.
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