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By Jo Nova
Who Needs World Heritage Listing Anyway?
The best managed and largest reef system in the world just avoided being listed as “in danger” yet again. Despite the reef having near record levels of coral cover for the last four years, UNESCO tut-tutted and gave Australia a conditional pass, telling us we must do a water report in 18 months and conservation report in December 2028. Dance monkey, dance.
Not only that, but the unaudited and unelected foreign committee tells the Australian government that we need to stop the destruction of Queensland’s forest and bushland too, because that’s making the whole planet warmer. So no more industrial wind parks in the wilderness then? Alas — The UN doesn’t care about that destruction, but they do say — like a true Nanny, that they will continue to “watch with a magnifying glass.” Which means exactly nothing. Other coral reefs in the world are being “blast fished” with home made bombs, but their governments didn’t make the mistake of begging for listing as a World Heritage Site, so they can blast away. The magnifying glass doesn’t see the exploding fish.
The Patsy Labor Government should have told the UN to get a grip — instead it said “Thank you”.
The Blob always wins
The UN threatens us with the dreaded sticker of reef sin nearly every year. They do a song and dance performance and so do we, and then we are granted mercy “with conditions” that usually involve spending millions of dollars on bureaucrats or “friends of the Blob”.
Great Barrier Reef avoids ‘in danger’ listing in World Heritage Committee draft decision
ABC News
The Great Barrier Reef has avoided an “in danger” listing in a draft decision by the World Heritage Committee.
In the document released overnight, the UNESCO Committee noted Australia’s “ongoing commitment and enhanced collaborative efforts” towards the reef’s long-term protection.
However, the UN body also raised “utmost concern” over the site’s declining coral cover after mass bleaching events in 2024 and 2025.
Their concerns are always ‘utmost’ — see Decision 47, Decision 45, Decision 46, all done while the Great Barrier Reef was at the highest levels of coral cover seen since 1986.
The UN looks acts and smells like it is a proto world government, telling us what to do without our forests, farms and coral. It costs the UN almost nothing to launch preposterous PR Bombs and extract whatever they want. And we pay the UN to do it.
Pander, pander, pander
Australia welcomes draft UNESCO decision to keep Great Barrier Reef off danger list
Australia doesn’t need the UN Heritage Listing to prove the Great Barrier Reef is a spectacular tourism asset. We just need photos.
As I said two years ago: The Labor party sold out the nation. The only correct response was to ask UNESCO why it was wasting our taxpayer funds and launch an audit of our UN contributions. Do we get value for money, or is the UN using our funds, and their own corrupt heritage list, to extort policies that the Australian voters didn’t vote for?
It’s not about the science
REFERENCE
Peter Ridd, Reef Rebels Coral Cover Graph of AIMS data.
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