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HC1082 - Environmental Effect on Great Barrier Reef and Its Economic Impact

   

Added on  2020-02-24

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Running head: ENVIRONMETAL EFFECT ON GREAT BARRIER REEF AND ITSECONOMIC IMPACTEnvironmental Effect on Great Barrier Reef and Its Economic ImpactName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note

1ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT ON GREAT BARRIER REEF AND ITS ECONOMICIMPACTTable of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................2Article Summary..............................................................................................................................2Environmental effect on Great Barrier Reef....................................................................................3Economic Impact of Great Barrier Reef..........................................................................................4Recommendation.............................................................................................................................5Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5References........................................................................................................................................6

2ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT ON GREAT BARRIER REEF AND ITS ECONOMICIMPACTIntroduction The Great Barrier Reef sited at the Australia’s east coast is considered as a wondercreation of nature. The Reef is extent up to 300,000 square kilometers forming a beautiful coralisland can be visible from Earth’s surface. The Reef has both natural and economic importancefor Australian and for the world as well. Therefore, protection of this natural beauty is thenational responsibility. The Reef is endangered with human activity that leads to pollution anddestroy lives of coral. With this, there is a threat to destruction of the only living organic island.In a step to protect Great Barrier Reef Conservationists in Queensland, ban the river mining. Article Summary Obsolete and inefficient method used for mining in north Queensland goes completelyagainst the protection policy for Great Barrier Reef. Queensland is the only region left inAustralia that allows extraction of tin, gold and silver with Instream mining method. In themethod, fine sediments are released harming a major part of reef’s catchments. Viewing this,Anthony Lynham, mines minister of the state has recently disallowed mining activities that havepotential impact on the Reef. The potential dumping of sediments from these activities arecomputed as 22,000 tons in just one year (thehindu.com 2017). Conservation reserve director,Tim Hughes also supports this initiative of the mine minister. The primary factor for inefficientmining method in this South Australian State is its location disadvantage. It is still considered asa very remote place and thus is often ignored. However, now attention is also given to this state.In a report published by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), states there aremore or less 22 mines responsible for destroying the reef and put a threat to the 30 or more

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