The Great Barrier Reef’s “In Danger” Listing

The Great Barrier Reef is vast, beautiful and fragile, and as you may know – it’s under threat.  Despite science-based recommendations, The Australian Government has successfully lobbied the World Heritage Committee to NOT list the Great Barrier Reef as “In Danger”. So what does this mean for the reef? Jon Day is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University and has been working on the reef for 28 years. He joined the Thursday Daily to talk about what an “In Danger” listing would mean – and why our government fought against it.