One of Australia’s most remarkable and extraordinary natural gifts is the Wonderful Barrier Reef. The Reef itself is blessed with the breathtaking beauty of the world’s largest and protected coral reef. The Excellent Barrier Reef consists of a fantastic quantity of marine life and comprises of over 3000 individual reef systems and coral cays and literally hundreds of picturesque tropical islands with some of the worlds most stunning sun-soaked, golden beaches. The Fantastic Barrier Reef is classified as 1 of the seven wonders of the natural world, larger than the Great Wall of China, and the world’s greatest single structure produced by living organisms on earth visible from space.

 The Wonderful Barrier Reef supports a selection of life, and it includes several vulnerable or endangered species, some of which may be endemic to the reef system itself. Following a brief and thorough discussion by the Royal Commissions, its findings in 1975 states that the Government of Australia created the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and it would prohibit various activities like deep sea fishing. While the law is still in command, still The Wonderful Barrier Reef Marine Park does not incorporate the whole Wonderful Barrier Reef Province. The park is managed and conserved by the Government of Australia and in partnership with the Government of Queensland, through the Excellent Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to ensure that it is utilised in a sustainable manner. A mixture of management plans zoning, permits education and incentives (such as eco-tourism certification) are employed in the effort to conserve the reef.

In the late 2006, a review of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 recommended are that there need to be no further zoning strategy modifications until 2013, and that every five years, a peer-reviewed Outlook Report need to be published, examining the reef’s health, management, and environmental pressures.

Due to its enormous biodiversity, clear waters and accessibility from the tourist boats referred to as ‘live aboards’, the reef is a extremely common destination, especially scuba divers. Tourism on the Great Barrier Reef is intense in the Whitsundays and Cairns due to their convenience. These tourist destination areas make up 7% of the Park’s location. A lot of cities along the Queensland coastline offer every day boat trips. A number of continental and coral cay islands are now resorts, such as the pristine Lady Elliot Island. As of 1996, 27 islands on the Fantastic Barrier Reef are supported resorts.

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