There’s been so much bad news about the Great Barrier Reef in the press every year since the 1960s, it’s good to have good news.

https://www.aims.gov.au/monitoring-great-barrier-reef/gbr-condition-summary-2021-22

There’s a record resurgence of coral across the Great Barrier Reef.

Coral cover has bounced back across two thirds of the Great Barrier Reef.

The northern and central sections of the reef have the highest levels of coral cover recorded in 36 years of monitoring.

The survey report estimates hard coral cover in the northern section of the reef, from Cape York to Cooktown, is sitting at 36 per cent. That’s the highest level recorded in the monitoring program’s 36-year history and a major turnaround from the most recent low of 13 per cent in 2017.

In the central section of the reef from Cooktown to Proserpine hard coral cover is estimated at 33 per cent, also the highest on record and up from 14 per cent in 2019.

Good

The last I heard was that the Crown of Thorns Starfish was destroying a lot of it, and the warmer water due to climate change was killing most of the rest.

I would like some references, please.

Most of the regen is of the one species which of course means even less biodiversity.

Kingy said:

The last I heard was that the Crown of Thorns Starfish was destroying a lot of it, and the warmer water due to climate change was killing most of the rest.

I would like some references, please.

Yes, not only a remarkable turn around, but an extremely fast one too. Smells a lot like dead fish to me.

Kingy said:

The last I heard was that the Crown of Thorns Starfish was destroying a lot of it, and the warmer water due to climate change was killing most of the rest.

I would like some references, please.

References in the original post.