HI5003 - Newspaper Analysis
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NEWSPAPER ANALYSIS 2Article:As a coastal defence, the Great Barrier Reef’s value to communities goes waybeyondtourismAugust 3, 2017 10.16pmm SAST Author: Mark Gibbs The great barrier reef is a wonder world feature situated in North Eastern parts of Australiaoff the coast of Queensland. It emerges the largest living substance on the Earth which is observable from the external space. The Great Barrier Reef is an ecological system made up of some hundreds of Islands composed of more than 600 sorts of soft and hard corals and hosts different varieties of starfish, colourful fish, molluscs and even sharks. The entire ecosystem covers about two thousand three hundred kilometres of the coastal margin. Woefully, the feature has been threatening to advance to its extinction because of constant climate change and environmentally harmful human activities. In accordance to the writers of “Large Sections of Australia's Great Reef are Now Dead Scientists Find," Justine Willis and Damien Cave, this beautiful feature has endured a lot of destruction from the mentioned deteriorating factors. In a coming couple of decades, the feature may cease to be. This anticipation of future state could have made the writer of this story to go into the study of why the reef regions were not included and thus the actual article (Cave & Gillis).
NEWSPAPER ANALYSIS 3The united nations educational and cultural organization(UNESCO) excluded the Great Barrier Reef from the list of natural world features in danger, and that seemed not agreeable due to the effects that the reef has been experiencing from the environment. Examples of these effects include bleaching leading to their death. These reefs have attracted and enticed tourists for centuries now drawing a varied tourism to the Australian Marine Industry. The World Heritage Committee is another body concerned with the welfare of the wonderful features of the world. These organizations have worked hand in hand with the Australian government to protect the reefs with an interest of maintaining their tourism value and protecting the future ecosystem. Thefast degeneration of the barrier reef is an extension of negative impact to the oceanic ecological system to a negative impact on our species therefore not only scientists but also individuals are tobe concerned with this matter (Cave & Gillis)What causes these effects anyway? Climate change has been most prevalently experienced in Australia for the last couple of decades. The rise in temperature has been higher in Australia thanother countries. The rising sea levels and warming temperatures have been taking places becauseof large amounts of emission of greenhouse gas as a result of human development activities like
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