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Six mass bleaching events — just this past year in 2022, back in 2020, 2017, 2016, 2002, in 1998. so we have been looking at some really dire consequences for the reef in just a very short period of time. so this unesco and iucn monitoring mission that commenced just back in march of 2022, they assessed the condition of the great barrier reef during that six mass bleaching event, as it was unfolding, and they started putting a report together to decide, with the world heritage committee, whether to list this icon as in danger. now, a listing of "in danger", it emphasises to australia that we...

Well, the great barrier reef has experienced, as we all know around the world now, six mass bleaching events — just this past year in 2022, back in 2020, 2017, 2016, 2002, in 1998. so we have been looking at some really dire consequences so this unesco and iucn monitoring mission that the condition of the great barrier reef during that six mass bleaching event, as it was unfolding, and they started putting a report together to decide, with the world heritage committee, whether to list this icon as in danger. now, a listing of "in danger", it emphasises to australia that we need to act quickl...

The sixth mass bleaching events since 1997. richard leck, head of 0ceans at wwf australia gave me his assessment. what we're seeing is a really serious unfolding on the great barrier reef. parts of the reef are under conditions of an underwater heatwave and we're hearing reports of severe bleaching over an extended area in the central part of the great barrier reef. now, fingers crossed the water cools down over the next few days and weeks and we don't have an official mass bleaching event, but what we've heard now is really serious and it's certainly going to extend for a long length of the r...

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From minor to severe. the survey has yet to completed, but it would be the sixth mass bleaching event since 1997. for more on this i'm joined now by richard leck, head of oceans at wwf australia. i know that you haven't finished yet, but tell us what this survey shows so far. thanks, lucy. this is a heartbreaking story. what we are seeing is a really serious event unfolding on the great barrier reef. parts of the reef are under conditions of an underwater heatwave, and we are hearing reports of severe bleaching over an extended area in the central part of the great barrier reef. angus crossed ...