Heartbreaking footage of the Mass Coral Bleaching event on The Great Barrier Reef earlier this month

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1. It’s worth posting the comments made by the creator of this video:

   “***The Reef is not dead.*** ***This footage has been selectively shot to showcase the recent 2024 bleaching event and issue****. Sea temperatures while they are currently still higher than usual (by 1 degrees Celsius), have dropped 2 degrees. This gives us hope that large sections of the bleached reef will recover in the next few weeks.*

   *The Great Barrier Reef is currently under stress and is experiencing another mass bleaching event. Following some record high sea temperatures large sections of reef has bleached.*

   *Even with this heartbreaking footage,* ***large sections of The Reef are still stunningly beautiful, and full of colour and life****. Even the sections affected by this bleaching event still have sections that are vibrant and full of colour.*

   *Now I don’t post much doom and gloom content, so I want to be very clear when I say this, to also say that the Great Barrier Reef is epic, and sections of it are still stunningly beautiful. But I also want to address the reality of the current situation.*

   *This bleaching phenomenon occurs to corals as a stress response from high sea temperatures, where the corals expel the photosynthetic algae living in their polyps. This causes the coral to turn completely white, where if sea temperatures don’t drop they will face mortality.*

   ***These corals are not dead however, they are merely under stress and face the risk of mortality****.* ***If the sea temperatures drop before this, the corals will accept their algae back in, and they will survive*****.**”