The Great Barrier Reef is inscribed on the World Heritage List
The reef is inscribed as a natural World Heritage property, one of the earliest and among the largest ever listed. The inscription later became a mechanism of leverage rather than only recognition: subsequent reviews of whether the property should be listed as World Heritage in Danger have repeatedly forced the Australian government to publish reef condition assessments and water-quality commitments it would not otherwise have made on that schedule.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Great Barrier Reef · geographic_feature · Australia · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
World Heritage List: Great Barrier Reef (property 154)
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.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre · 1981 · Partly verified
UNESCO World Heritage List entry for the Great Barrier Reef, inscribed 1981 (whc.unesco.org). NOT RETRIEVED: whc.unesco.org could not be reached in this session.
Recorded on Great Barrier Reef
- The Great Barrier Reef is inscribed on the World Heritage List
- Mass synchronous spawning described on the Great Barrier Reef
- The Long-Term Monitoring Program begins annual reef surveys
- A measured decline in Great Barrier Reef coral calcification is published
- Twenty-seven years of monitoring show coral cover roughly halved
- Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
- A second consecutive year of mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
Related
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- A second consecutive year of mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef · 2017
- Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef · 2016-03 to 2016-04
- Twenty-seven years of monitoring show coral cover roughly halved · 2012
- A measured decline in Great Barrier Reef coral calcification is published · 2009-01
- The Long-Term Monitoring Program begins annual reef surveys · 1985
- Mass synchronous spawning described on the Great Barrier Reef · 1984