The Reef

This is the story of the Great Barrier Reef from mans ancient awareness of it to his realisation that it is a major world wonder of great value to mankind Beautiful dangerous and diverse the Reef provides escape and recreation a vast resource and limitless retreat for the fisherman tourist adventurer industrialist scientist artist and sportsman But a small increment of pollution or a slight deprivation of sunlight may set in motion a chain of events that could precipitate a decline and decay of the Reef on which little coral polyps have been working for some six hundred thousand years