Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

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1. Story
2. The Australian statutory authority created by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 to manage the Marine Park, headquartered in Townsville, Queensland. Its significance for this Journey is the zoning plan: rather than protecting a small area absolutely and leaving the rest open, the Authority divides the whole park into zones with graded permitted uses, and the 2004 rezoning raised the fully protected no-take fraction to roughly a third of the park across every habitat type represented in it. That representative design — protecting a share of each habitat rather than only the scenic or convenient parts — became a widely copied template for large marine protected areas. It also marks the limit of what a park authority can do: zoning governs fishing, shipping, tourism and coastal discharge, and none of those is what causes mass bleaching. A perfectly managed park still bleaches when the water is too warm.
3. Knowledge
4. Great Barrier Reef
5. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
6. Connections
7. Great Barrier Reef
8. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act creates a single managing authority
9. Coral Triangle
10. Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
11. Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster)
12. Australian Institute of Marine Science
13. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
14. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act creates a single managing authority
15. The Great Barrier Reef is inscribed on the World Heritage List
16. Mass synchronous spawning described on the Great Barrier Reef
17. The Long-Term Monitoring Program begins annual reef surveys
18. A measured decline in Great Barrier Reef coral calcification is published
19. Twenty-seven years of monitoring show coral cover roughly halved
20. Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
21. A second consecutive year of mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
22. Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef during a La Nina
23. The fifth mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016
24. The current state of the fourth global bleaching event is not established in this package
25. Evidence
26. The Great Barrier Reef was inscribed on the World Heritage List as a natural property in 1981. V55 verification basis: NOT retrieved; the inscription year and the property's status are stated from the producing model's knowledge of the World Heritage record. The property reference number is given as it is held and should be checked.