The 2024 Outlook Report is out NOW!
The Outlook Report, published every five years by the Reef Authority, assesses the Reef's health, pressures, management, and outlook.
The Report covers the period from January 2019 to December 2023. It does not include details of the 2023–24 mass coral bleaching event.
• The Report identifies climate change as the greatest threat to the Reef, with additional threats from coastal development, land-based runoff, and direct human activities such as illegal fishing.
• The overall outlook for the Great Barrier Reef remains one of future deterioration due largely to climate change.
• Some habitats and species have improved over the past five years thanks to windows of low disturbance and decades of protection and management.
• The Great Barrier Reef is a vast and spectacular ecosystem, renowned for its natural beauty and complex natural systems. Its heritage and unique values provide significant social, cultural, and economic benefits to Australia.
• World-leading management, as well the Reef's sheer size, do help protect this natural icon.
The 2024 Outlook Report is available on the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority website here: www.gbrmpa.gov.au/our-work/outlook-report-2024.
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