The federal and state governments must take action to save Tasmania\u2019s East Coast reefs.
\n\u201cOur reefs are far too important to lose, but right now they are being devastated by urchin barrens and the rapidly warming waters of Tasmania\u2019s East Coast,\u201d Greens Senator for Tasmania Nick McKim said.
\n\u201cTasmania\u2019s East Coast is one of the world\u2019s ocean warming hotspots, and the destruction of our reefs will have widespread impacts on species that rely on them and the wider marine environment.\u201d
\n‘A new report last week from IMAS stated that we have already lost 15% of our reefs. This is set to double in the next three years with an explosion of sea urchin numbers. Meanwhile, rock lobsters are down to 13% of original biomass.\u201d
\n\u201cFor too long governments have put profits ahead of the environment and the public good.\u201d
\nTasmanian Greens MP Rosalie Woodruff said:
\n\u201cThis report shows the urgent crisis that is the state of the East Coast reefs. All Tasmanians need all levels of government to act urgently.\u201d
\n\u201cIt\u2019s past time for the government to take serious action to prevent climate change and any further loss of our reefs.\u201d
\n\u201cIt\u2019s great to see so many environmental groups standing together today to defend our reefs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The federal and state governments must take action to save Tasmania\u2019s East Coast reefs. \u201cOur reefs are far too important to lose, but right now they are being devastated by urchin barrens and the rapidly warming waters of Tasmania\u2019s East Coast,\u201d Greens Senator for Tasmania Nick McKim said. \u201cTasmania\u2019s East Coast is one of the … Continue reading “Urgent action needed to save Tassie\u2019s East Coast reefs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}