Shark Bay: A World Heritage Site at catastrophic risk
- Written by Matthew Fraser, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
Shark Bay was hit by a brutal marine heatwave in 2011.W. Bulach/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
The devastating bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and 2017 rightly captured the world’s attention. But what’s less widely known is that another World Heritage-listed marine ecosystem in Australia, Shark Bay, was also recently devastated...
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