Many countries ``unable to save reefs''
Many countries and communities which are highly dependent on marine harvests or tourism from their coral reefs may be unable to save those reefs from the likely impacts of climate change with their current conservation measures and capacity, the researchers say in an editorial in the journal Conservation Letters.
Government beefs up reef protection Updated: 16:44, Friday February 1, 2013 The federal government is beefing up its protection of the Great Barrier Reef to prevent the United Nations from stripping it of its world heritage status.