Great Barrier Reef suffers mass bleaching leading to record coral decline
Last year, the major barrier reef was subjected to the largest annual decline in the coral cover in two of the three regions of the three regions that have been regularly searched since the start of the climate change due to the heat stress due to climate change that caused the monitoring to be bleached 39 years ago.
Capetown, known as the northern region by the Australian Institute of Naval Sciences, which led to a long -term monitoring of the Reef, from Cape York to Cooktown, the coral cover fell from 39.8 percent to 30 percent.
The episodes of the major barrier reef were subjected to the largest annual decline in the coral cover due to bleaching in 2024. Credit: © AIMS | LTMP
In the middle region, Cooktown fell from 33.2 percent to 28.6 percent from Cooktown and fell almost one -third in the southern region extending to Gladstone, or fell to 38.9 percent, he said.
However, Dr. Mike Emslie, who pioneered the long -term monitoring project, was partially cushioned, as the reef of these parts had a relatively high levels of coverage before the 2024 sea heat wave.
“Record losses on this year’s hard coral cover, thanks to the highest record of recent years, came out of a high base,” he said.
“Now we see the increasing volatility at the hard coral cover levels. This is a phenomenon that has emerged in the last 15 years and points to an ecosystem under stress.
“We saw that the coral cover is released between record miscaries and record levels,” he said.
Mercan Agema, Once Upon a Rare Event, 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025 hit the episodes of the Great Barrier Reef.
