The Great Barrier reef is continuing to get more and more bleached which is very bad and may cause the Barrier Reef to die out all together. Bleaching is when the coral looses color due to climatic occurrences, such as a rise in sea levels or extreme weather patterns. Of the 1,429 mile reef 93% of the reef suffers from some bleaching. "The bleaching is extreme in the 1,000 km (600 mile) region north of Port Douglas all the way up to the northern Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea," says Andrew Baird of the ARC Centre. "At some reefs, the final death toll is likely to exceed 90%. When bleaching is this severe, it affects almost all coral species, including old, slow-growing corals that once lost will take decades or longer to return." The reefs are getting more and more harmed and even though people are doing all they can to protect the reefs and make them healthy again, there is no more they can do. Global warming has caused the water to warm too much and has caused too extreme of weather patterns so the reefs are have no way of recovering right now. I think this is really sad and I hope we find a way to cure the reefs or are able to replant them again.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/20/asia/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/20/asia/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching/index.html