United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, June 21 2021: “This document, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural World Heritage, contains information on the state of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List. The World Heritage Committee is requested to review the reports on the state of conservation of properties contained in this document. The full reports of Reactive Monitoring missions requested by the World Heritage Committee are available at the following Web address in their original language: https://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/44COM/documents. All previous state of conservation reports will also be available through the World Heritage State of conservation Information System at the following Web address: https://whc.unesco.org/en/soc…”

• Washington Post: “The Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of world heritage sites that are “in danger,” according to United Nations officials, a move Australian officials plan to challenge as politically motivated. UNESCO, the world body’s educational, scientific and cultural agency, on Monday recommended placing the massive coral ecosystem on the list, ahead of a July meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Fuzhou, China. The UNESCO report urges Australia to take “accelerated action at all possible levels” to address the threat from climate change. Australia is one of the only wealthy nations that has not pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, and it is facing pressure to do so…”
• CNN – The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its corals within 3 decades