By: Tyler Dudek

Corals in the Great Barrier Reef are finally starting to recover.

Head researcher Dr Mike Emslie said the “2016 and 2017 bleaching events

led to widespread coral mortality, but the marine heatwaves that prompted

bleaching in 2020 and 2022 were shorter in duration and less intense.”

“There will probably be some corals that have died from this event, but

we’re not going to see anywhere near the levels like we saw in 2016,

2017,” Dr Emslie said.

Recent research shows that the coral coverage in the northern part of the

reef is 36% in 2022, 9% more than last year.

Australia is doing a lot to protect the Great Barrier Reef in the future.

If the Coral recovers, the fish will too. They will have coral to hide in, and

blend in from predators like sharks, eels, and maybe clams.

Whatever Australia is doing to help protect the Great Barrier Reef, they

should continue the same thing.