The life and loss of kelp Shining a light on Australia’s Great Southern Reef
What is Australia’s largest and most commercially valuable reef? It’s not the obvious choice, Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. Instead it’s the Great Southern Reef, a name coined in 2016 to bring this vast and under-recognised area to public attention. Justin Gilligan profiles this fragile environment and the threatened kelp species that underpin its ecology.
Australian National Maritime Museum
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