Nemo survived an ordeal in the movie but, according to Greenpeace and UNESCO, he won’t be able to survive human greed: Indian coal giant Adani wants to dredge and dump 3 million cubic meters of sea-floor in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area to make way for a new coal terminal.
Obviously, Greenpeace is launching a campaign to try to stop it:
UNESCO cited the dredging and dumping as one of the reasons it is still considering an ‘in danger’ listing for the reef.
Photo: FarbenfroheWunderwelt
The entire ecosystem was inscribed as World Heritage in 1981, covering an area of 134,363 square miles—348,000 square kilometres.
