{"id":2101,"date":"2016-12-06T04:23:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2016-12-06T04:59:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T12:59:04","slug":"great-barrier-reef-in-danger-says-unesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/great-barrier-reef-in-danger-says-unesco\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Barrier Reef in danger, says UNESCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2102\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1480826820545.jpg\" alt=\"1480826820545\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1480826820545.jpg 620w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1480826820545-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UNESCO has threatened to list the Great Barrier Reef, as a &#8220;World Heritage in Danger&#8221; unless Australia cleans up its act and works harder to save this ecological treasure. On Friday the Australian government filed a report on what it&#8217;s doing, which coral reef scientists have declared inadequate. Tragically, the government&#8217;s plan of action, outlined in its Reef 2050 Plan, is silent about global warming. Moreover the Queensland government is pushing ahead with plans to build a vast port to ship coal in the middle of the GBR and Oz is showing little sign of meeting its CO2 target emissions to ensure world temperatures don&#8217;t rise by more than 2\u02daC, a must if reefs are to survive. Shame on my native land!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/comment\/-gt3mp1.html\">Here<\/a> you can see footage of a helicopter flyover above dozens of GBR rub-reefs devastated by massive coral bleaching this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Jason South.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNESCO has threatened to list the Great Barrier Reef, as a &#8220;World Heritage in Danger&#8221; unless Australia cleans up its act and works harder to save this ecological treasure. On Friday the Australian government filed a report on what it&#8217;s doing, which coral reef scientists have declared inadequate. Tragically, the government&#8217;s plan of action, outlined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}