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Human influences have resulted in a 50 decline of the Great Barrier Reef since 1985 After reviewing this endangerment issue one can see that the Australian Government needs to take immediate action to reduce the cause and effect of air pollution and impurity of water off the coast of Queensland Australia A few hazards that have excessively increased over the years are Illegal Fishing Climate Change and Coral Bleaching most of these are factors from the waste from large commercial companies in or near the area A high concentration of greenhouse gases mostly carbon dioxide result in heat being trapped and overall high water temperature which will decrease the oxygen in the water affecting the organisms living in this environment The sustainability management plan believes that these threats will affect the reefs ability to recover if action is not taken in future years as it is already rapidly decaying and projected to be barren by 2050 The government needs to take immediate action to reduce air pollution and contamination of the water by creating an eco friendly coalition in areas around Queensland According to barrierreef org an informational website notwithstanding positive actions have caused around 67 of shallow water coral to perish from the effects of coral bleaching and fossil fuel emissions
