Factoid/2003/07/15
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Mounting Enviro Pressures for Great Barrier Reef
- "Australian Environment Minister Dr. David Kemp released the "2003 State of the Reef Report" last week at a reef conference in Townsville, Queensland. "The Great Barrier Reef is under mounting pressure," Kemp told delegates. "The numbers of nesting loggerhead turtles have declined between 50 and 80 percent, and dugong populations adjacent to Queensland's urban coast are estimated to be only three percent to what they were in the 1960s." The annual flow of sediments and nutrients from land based activities into the reef has increased four-fold since European settlement, according to the report." - excerpt from the Environmental News Network at http://ens-news.com/ens/jul2003/2003-07-10-04.asp
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