Great Barrier Reef IUCN Classification is now Critical

Out of 18 critical sites, it is one of two sites to have a deteriorating outlook.

ICUN Program. Image — Wikimedia Commons.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN has moved it classification of the Great Barrier Reef to “critical”, in its November 2020 World Heritage Outlook 3 report, worse than the previous 2017 report classification of…