A five-yearly evidence-based report from the reef's management authority has downgraded the outlook for the coral ecosystem, in its report the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has reassessed the outlook for the Great Barrier Reef, downgrading it from "poor" to "very poor".
The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble

An area of the Great Barrier Reef damaged by bleaching Source: AAP
The future for Australia's World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef is now described as "very poor".
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