How Much Is The Great Barrier Reef Dead
. It was worse off than any reef in the world with up to 85 mortality. And the bleaching is far wider ranging than the dead coral -.
The Great Barrier Reef is not entirely dead it is large enough to support swaths of healthy coral. Climate change is destroying Earths largest coral ecosystem. The decline occurred in both shallow and deeper water and across virtually all species but especially in branching and table-shaped corals.
50 Of The Great Barrier Reef Is Now Dead Or Dying 93 Is Bleached.
And the bleaching is far wider ranging than the dead coral -. But even in the face of that whole-scale destruction we saw individual corals that were still alive looking like nothing had. There were exponentially more animals in the dead coral samples. Thats a quarter of the reef that is gone for hundreds of years if not forever.
