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List of World Heritage in Danger
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- A joint report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre (WHC) expressed concern about the status of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in Australia.
- They recommended that it “be inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger.”
- It is located off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
- The GBR is the world’s largest coral reef system with over 2,900 individual reefs, 900 islands and an area covering approximately 344,400 square kilometres.
- It is one of the biggest biodiversity hotspots in the world as well as one of its largest carbon sinks.
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