Sentences with phrase «by the great barrier»

In between these events, we managed to do touristy things like buy superb Aboriginal art in shops at The Rocks, stroll through the enormous — and beautiful — Botanical Gardens, visit the Taronga Zoo, tour the famous Sydney Opera House, and shudder when totally surrounded by those Great Barrier Reef predators in the shark tunnel at the aquarium.
Implementation of the Intergovernmental Agreement is being driven by the Great Barrier Reef Ministerial Forum.
It is managed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Authority to ensure that its beauty is maintained for many generations to come.
Queensland is fringed by the Great Barrier Reef, which extends along its coastline for more than 2000 kilometres (1200 miles).
Take in spectacular views of the Australian coast on a charter flight to Lizard Island National Park, a ring of islands bordered by the Great Barrier Reef.
Fly via Cairns to Lizard Island, a pristine national park of sugar - white beaches and mangrove forests bordered by the Great Barrier Reef, giving visitors unparalleled access to its extraordinary marine ecosystem.
Bedarra Island ResortBedarra Island Resort is an exclusive, romantic rainforest retreat surrounded by the Great Barrier Reef.
The Great Barrier Reef is divided into four sections by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Act.
The islands are protected by the Great Barrier Reef which results in tranquil waters and colourful ocean beds.
Regulated by Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, campers are required to bring sufficient water, food and a tent.
Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef is surrounded by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), the largest marine protected area in the world and a world heritage area.
Responding to the recent announcement by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's (GBRMPA) around the health of the reef, the Whitsundays reef remains healthy.Tourism Whitsundays CEO Craig Turner said while there are bleaching events happening across the Great Barrier Reef, the effects of bleaching within the Whitsundays were minimal.
The money collected is used by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) for the management and protection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
That afternoon we headed out in the small safari boats into the breath - taking Danube Delta UNESCO Reserve, which boasts the third largest biodiversity in the world with over 5,500 species of flora and fauna and is exceeded only by the Great Barrier Reef and the Galapagos archipelago.
Bordered by the Great Barrier Reef, the Whitsunday islands are a group of 74 different islands and each of them is considered to be a true tropical paradise.
Fringed by the Great Barrier Reef and World Heritage Daintree rainforests, Dreamcatcher Apartments offer you the opportunity to discover the colours
The T6 team have all completed their ADVANCED REEF TEACH certification courses (endorsed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority), and are keen to share their love and knowledge of the reef with you.
The Eco Walking Trail incorporates the Climate Change Trail developed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) and Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort.
Experience a successful conference on Heron Island, featuring soft white sand and crystal clear waters surrounded by the Great Barrier Reef.
Many of Wavelengths sites are privately registered and are certified by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority as low - impact sites.
These mammals can live up to 100 years and are protected by the Great Barrier Reef.
Lady Elliot Island will be the first new climate change «ark» of the Reef Island Refuge Initiative established recently by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.
The position presented by the Great Barrier Reef Climate Change Alliance was that a 25 per cent reduction in emissions was needed by 2020, and that a market - based emissions reduction policy should be the central approach.
Feel the energy of a vibrant tropical culture of Cairns brought to life with festivals, events and experiences shaped by the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics rainforest.

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The Great Barrier Reef has been damaged by agricultural runoff from farms and by coral - devouring crown - of - thorns starfish, which liquify coral organisms.
The Great Barrier Reef is so large it can be seen from space, but large portions of the reef have been devastated or killed by bleaching events.
And Great Barrier Reef researchers recently announced that they'd successfully repopulated parts of the reef by collecting coral eggs and sperm, growing coral larvae, and replanting those larvae in protected sites on the reef.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) chairman Russell Reichelt said he recognised there was intense community concern and debate about the application by North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation to dispose of dredge spoil in the park.
If we don't act now, the climate change damage caused to our Great Barrier Reef by 2030 will be irreversible.»
The Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved by existing plans to protect the ecological site, experts have warned, saying that efforts should shift to a lesser, backup plan of maintaining the reef's «ecological function» instead.
«We help coworking spaces close more leads and eliminate a great sales barrier by financing the security deposit for new members, as well reducing the churn by keeping existing ones.»
As neil degrasse tyson pointed out, each of our great mathematicians and scientists throughout the centuries reached their limit and declared God did it... only to have the next guy push though that barrier, reach their own limit... and claim the same... This lady has the benefit of history and science at her finger tips, and judging by her credentials is no stranger to the scientific process, and still fell into the same trap...
However an examination of other articles by the same author in Ex Nihilo reveals that, to Snelling 1, everything geological (Ayers Rock, Mt Isa ore deposits, Bass Strait oil and gas, Queensland coal deposits, Great Barrier Reef, etc.,) can be explained as the result of Noah's year - long Flood.
Then the postmodern world may be one in which all barriers are removed in one great post-industrial global market that is directed by the information sciences.
Too great and too glad to be stopped by prejudice, it seeks the good of all sorts and conditions of folk across all the barriers that caste, class, and race can erect.
Mr Pickles framed his reforms around David Cameron's narrative of the «big society», encouraging greater community action by removing barriers from the state.
At a Parliamentary debate on government procurement and manufacturing this week, organised by the Associate Parliamentary Manufacturing Group, a number of issues were identified as barriers to greater use.
We need to foster greater social cohesion in our society, not divide and segregate children by their parents» religious beliefs and erect needless barriers to mutual understanding and respect.
THE Great Barrier Reef has been so severely damaged by record ocean heat that it will never be the same again in our lifetimes or those of our grandchildren.
By validating model results against geological observations, the study indicates that changes in runoff, sea level and wave energy have profoundly affected the past evolution of the Great Barrier Reef not only in regard to reefs evolution but also sediment fate from source - to - sink.
Conservationists had argued that this addition to global greenhouse emissions would damage the Great Barrier Reef by accelerating climate change.
Coral bleaching has affected virtually the entire Great Barrier Reef and many other coral reef systems globally, a result of the continuing rise in global temperatures and exacerbated by the summer's major El Niño event.
Using a large corpus of sentences pronounced by English - language speakers showing a great variety of pace and accents, researchers observed that these coupled oscillations split words in an intelligent way: they adapted to the pace of the speaker and could correctly detect not only the syllabic barriers but also syllables identity.
This expedition landed on the southwestern confines of the Ross Sea, and, by its explorations, showed that the great ice barrier is in reality the front of an enormous ice field or glacier, mainly floating on the surface of an extended bay or sea, and fed by glaciers coming down from the elevated land on the westerly side and probably also on the eastern.
But more than 99 percent of young turtles hatched in sand soaked by warmer waters in the northern Great Barrier Reef were female — with one male for every 116 females.
«Even the massive, remote, and intensely managed Great Barrier Reef is being degraded by human activities.
Yet in 2016 Fisheries and Oceans Canada wrote in a report there was an «extreme» risk of Asian carp species establishing populations in three of the five great lakes within 50 years, despite millions of dollars spent by the U.S. government to build aquatic barriers and promote harvest programs.
Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.
Thousands of giant clams are being ferried by the Royal Australian Navy to secret locations on the Great Barrier Reef in an attempt to prevent poaching — a practice that almost wiped them out about twenty years ago.
Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don't they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia?
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