Australia strives to protect the world's largest coral reef

According to a reporter in Australia, the Queensland state government has announced a new plan to protect the world's largest coral reef Great Barrier Reef.

>>>The world's largest coral reef is seriously degraded

On November 1, in Townsville, Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt and his Queensland counterpart Andrew Powell jointly published a strategic assessment of the Great Barrier Reef . Accordingly, the most effective measure to prevent reef damage and restoration is to adopt a new management framework, while overall research influences human activities and natural forces instead of separate each type of impact as before.

Great Barrier Reef.(Source: telegraph.co.uk)

Hunt said this "practical benefit policy" will help better manage coastal activities and maintain coral reef biodiversity for future generations.

The new plan was adopted after 2012, UNESCO expressed concern about the condition of coral reefs on the list of world cultural heritage.

The Great Barrier Reef is more than 2,300 km long along the Queensland coast and covers about 346,000 km ² .

A report by UNESCO, released last May, also stressed that Australia's coral reefs could be listed as a world natural heritage that is in danger if the government of this country not timely supplementing measures to strengthen protection before February of next year