Rowley Shoals: The bleached Australian reef and a Covid challenge

Coral bleaching was detected in a usually healthy reef off Australia's north-western coast earlier this year.

But due to Covid lockdown rules, the discovery presented scientists with a challenge: how could they survey the reef without being able to travel there?

Video by Isabelle Rodd

 Rowley Shoals in the North West of Australia (AHS nautical charts with the GeoGarage platform)

 

Links :

• The Guardian : Unsustainable fishing worsens threats to Great Barrier Reef