Development in Queensland is out of control and has put the Great Barrier Reef at risk, the United Nations report says. Source: Supplied
A UNITED Nations report has declared Australia had failed to properly protect the Great Barrier Reef and called for a panel of overseas experts to review the natural wonder and safeguard its future.
Development in Queensland was out of control and about 35 projects scheduled for approval in the next year had put the Reef at further risk, according to a report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
In the report, a detailed and sometime scathing version of a draft released earlier this month, UNESCO says urgent measures must be taken to protect the World Heritage Area and warns against any further development before a critical assessment is completed by 2015.
The Courier Mail
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