{"id":12905,"date":"2013-03-21T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/barrier-reef-could-be-destroyed\/"},"modified":"2013-03-21T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T06:01:00","slug":"barrier-reef-could-be-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/03\/barrier-reef-could-be-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrier Reef could be destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Australia Marine Reserve\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/resources3.news.com.au\/images\/2013\/01\/23\/1226559\/660239-great-barrier-reef.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span>People feel that having the reef  in a marine park means it is<br \/>taken care of, but it isn&#8217;t really, marine  expert Professor Callum Roberts says. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>                    <\/div>\n<div>            <span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>CLIMATE change and the development coal terminals on the Queensland coast could permanently destroy the Great Barrier Reef, a marine expert warns.<\/p>\n<p>In his keynote speech at the David Thomas Conservation Oration in Sydney on Monday, Professor Callum Roberts will say that the Great Barrier Reef is under threat once again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The threat of oil and gas exploitation on reef in 1960s and 1970s really triggered national anxiety about the reef and grew the movement to protect it in perpetuity in a marine park,&#8221; Prof Roberts, a marine conservation biologist at the University of York in England, told AAP.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/travel\/barrier-reef-under-constant-threat-expert\/story-e6frfq7r-1226599476993#ixzz2O9RLrbMj\">http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/travel\/barrier-reef-under-constant-threat-expert\/story-e6frfq7r-1226599476993#ixzz2O9RLrbMj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Great Barrier Reef cruises, see <a href=\"http:\/\/coralprincess.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coral Princess Cruises<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People feel that having the reef in a marine park means it istaken care of, but it isn&#8217;t really, marine expert Professor Callum Roberts says. CLIMATE change and the development coal terminals on the Queensland coast could permanently destroy the Great Barrier Reef, a marine expert warns. In his keynote speech at the David Thomas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-12905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coral-princess-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}