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Protected Coral Reef Deliberately Damaged: Green Group

By Jason Heller, October 26, 2007 @ 02:00 AM (EST)
Source: Abc.net.au

Queensland's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says a protected coral reef off the far north Queensland coast has been deliberately damaged. EPA officers visited Hicks Island 600 kilometres north of Cairns after hearing allegations the coral reef that surrounds it, which is within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, had been damaged. They found a channel had been deliberately dug out, but the EPA will not comment on its size or how it may have been created

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