Where did you get that quote from?"The Great Barrier Reef is an extremely ancient, enormous host of living things, composed of living coral growing on dead coral dating back perhaps as much as twenty million years. "
From the Quicksilver cruise website:I'm pretty sure that in the program they mentioned that when the Aborigines first spread across the continent, the sea level was so low that the area that the GBR sits on was actually out of the water and that as the sea level rose the Aborigines were pushed inland.
Where did you get that quote from?
Not one mention of Adani's proposed largest coal mine! Attenborough should've NAMED AND SHAMED but that's too politicalI watched the recent Attenborough series and really enjoyed it (as I have all his wildlife series) and was particularly interested when they mentioned how relatively short a time the Great barrier Reef has actually existed.
Correct me if I am wrong, but they mentioned how the Aborigines were in Australia before the Great Barrier Reef existed.
Point is, it may not be as permanent a natural thing as we would like to believe and it has had its ups and downs in the past.
I'd really like them to go harder on any industry that pollutes the reef rather than a generalised war on coal mining that some might see as them just using the currents problems with the GBR to further their overall cause. This isn't to say that I disagree with them.
I did like the mention in Attenborough series of the migration of tropical species further south and wouldn't mind a coral reef down the beach from me.