over fishing and coastal development. Purple and yellow Coral at the Great Barrier Reef.(ABC News: Chris Lewis) As scientists, Jenny and John are all too aware of them. But they also marvel at how ...

Clown Fish Great Barrier Reef Master Reef Guides and marine biologists have also backed the submission drawing attention to the fact that the Great Barrier Reef protects more than 9,000 species of ...

In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef ... dozens of fish, two dogs and a ...

Not many people visit Lady Elliot Island, at the Great Barrier Reef's southern tip. But a lot of people are trying to protect ...

A Science Advances paper just backed up his theory, finding one of every two coral trout caught in commercial fishing zones on the Great Barrier Reef comes from larvae produced on the no-take reefs.

and I realise these fish are largely responsible for the underwater racket, along with the 9000 other species that call the Great Barrier Reef home. Earlier, on the two-hour catamaran ride out to ...

Popular eateries include the French-inspired C'est Bon Restaurant Français, the Indonesian-focused Bayleaf Balinese Restaurant and Tha Fish Restaurant ... at Cairns' Barrier Reef Brewing Co ...

1,500 species of fish, 4,000 species of mollusks and, yes, an abundance of corals. But big does not mean indestructible. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, which has jurisdiction over ...

the Great Barrier Reef shelters and sustains everything from algae, worms, and snails to fish, turtles, and sharks. Tropical fish swim along the edges of a coral reef off Great Keppel Island ...

The Great Barrier Reef was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. The vast underwater ecosystem is home to more than 400 types of coral and 1,500 species of fish, according to UNESCO.