Then in May and June, these concerns caused a split in the national coral
bleaching taskforce, which was set up to monitor the bleaching event.
There is growing concern over the condition of the Great Barrier Reef after a new survey by the country's National Coral
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These surveys provide valuable data which will contribute to the National
Bleaching Taskforce database and provide an enhanced picture of this threat within the Coral Sea CMR and adjacent Great Barrier Reef.
These amounts, measured and recorded by video underwater, match very closely with the broader aerial surveys of more than 750 reefs also being conducted by the National Coral
Bleaching Taskforce.
More than 80 percent of the northern part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, bleached white, according to an April report by the National Coral
Bleaching taskforce.