The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to increasing pressures from tourism, fishing, pollution and climate change, and is now protected as a marine park. This book provides an original account of the environmental history of the Great Barrier Reef, based on extensive archival and oral history research.  It documents and explains the main human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef since European settlement in the region, focusing particularly on the century from 1860 to 1960 which has not previously been fully documented, yet which was a period of unprecedented exploitation of the ecosystem and its resources. The book describes the main changes in coral reefs, islands and marine wildlife that resulted from those impacts.  In more recent decades, human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef have spread, accelerated and intensified, with implications for current management and conservation practices. There is now better scientific understanding of the threats faced by the ecosystem. Yet these modern challenges occur against a background of historical levels of exploitation that is little-known, and that has reduced the ecosystem's resilience. The author provides a compelling narrative of how one of the world's most iconic and vulnerable ecosystems has been exploited and degraded, but also how some early conservation practices emerged.
Cover 1
Half Title 2
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
List of figures 8
List of tables 10
Foreword 11
Acknowledgements 13
List of abbreviations 14
1 Introduction 18
2 Reconstructing changes in the Great Barrier Reef 32
3 The natural context of changes in the Great Barrier Reef 50
4 The spread of European settlement in coastal Queensland 60
5 The bêche-de-mer, pearl-shell and trochus fisheries 72
6 Impacts on marine turtles 89
7 Impacts on dugongs 112
8 Impacts on whales, sharks and fish 130
9 The impacts of coral and shell collecting 145
10 The impacts of guano and rock phosphate mining 172
11 The impacts of coral mining 181
12 Other impacts on coral reefs 201
13 Changes in island biota 218
14 Conclusion 241
References 246
Index 263
Marine Biology,Life Sciences,Technology & Engineering,Nature,Science,Oceans & Seas,General,Environmental Conservation & Protection,Ecosystems & Habitats,Environmental

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