Another year of mass bleaching

1 The World Heritage-listed reef is the largest living structure on Earth 2 The reef — bigger than UK, Switzerland and the Netherlands combined — was worth Aus$29b to tourism 3 At $56 billion, the reef is valued at more than 12 Sydney Opera Houses 4 No single Australian asset contributed as much to international perceptions of ‘Brand Australia’ 5 Reef suffers an unprecedented coral bleaching due to warming sea temperatures linked to climate change