The Greens welcome reports of record coral recovery on parts of the Great Barrier Reef but warn the Government not to jeopardise its survival by supporting more oil and gas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
CGreens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens absolutely welcome reports of coral recovery on the Great Barrier Reef, however we can\u2019t overlook that the fast-growing corals responsible for an increase in coral cover are also those most at risk from marine heatwaves and pest species. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was fortunate to dive on the Great Barrier Reef recently with experts who explained that these new corals are first to grow but also first to go – meaning the reef is still very much fragile and in danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe know that Labor\u2019s current climate targets equate to 2\u00b0C global warming. Make no mistake: this will result in the death of Great Barrier Reef as we have been lucky enough to know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLike it or not, the survival of the Great Barrier Reef is a political choice and Labor\u2019s current climate targets are a death sentence for the reef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf Labor wants to end the climate wars they can start by stopping new coal and gas, because as scientists will tell you it\u2019s fossil fuels or the reef – you can\u2019t have both.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens welcome reports of record coral recovery on parts of the Great Barrier Reef but warn the Government not to jeopardise its survival by supporting more oil and gas. CGreens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said: \u201cThe Greens absolutely welcome reports of coral recovery on the Great Barrier Reef, however we can\u2019t … Continue reading “Great Barrier Reef survival = no more oil and gas”<\/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-17640","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\/17640","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=17640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17641,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640\/revisions\/17641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}