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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Research published in Nature Geoscience explains how the biggest reef on Earth was formed. The Big Barrier Reef holds many secrets and is extremely popular among tourists. However, its future seems less than bright.<\/p>\n

The Great Barrier Reef may have been formed thanks to Fraser Island, the world largest sand island (1,700 square kilometers), shows an article in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geoscience. The island represents a sort of base that helped coral reef to form, protecting it from sea currents.<\/p>\n

Without Fraser Island to guide sediment off the continental shelf and into the deep, conditions would not have suited the formation of the reef. The Great Barrier Reef has a controversial backstory. It is about half a million years old. That means that the reef was formed long after conditions were appropriate for the growth of coral.<\/p>\n

The reef is in trouble right now; approximately half of its coral cover has already been lost. Experts agree that it all could be gone by 2050. UNESCO insists on putting the reef on a list of world heritage sites that are \u201cin danger\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, lobbying efforts from Australian government and business have prevented the reef from being added to UNESCO’s “in danger” list, even though its coral colonies have suffered from bleaching, and in some sections corals were reported to be dying.<\/p>\n

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