Reality Check

Reality Check: Due to anthropogenic heating, turtles originating from northern #GreatBarrierReef nesting beaches are now extremely female-biased (99.1% of juvenile, 99.8% of subadult).

Australia’s climate policies are a grave threat to their future. https://t.co/XNc6f9wVEa https://t.co/uYns7Voq0O

— Terry Hughes (@ProfTerryHughes) April 16, 2022

Reality Check: You would have to raise and outplant roughly 250 million adult corals to increase coral cover on the #GreatBarrierReef by just 1%.

"The ocean we want" can't be achieved without global action on emissions, pollution and overfishing. https://t.co/8F6XHBrC0v

— Terry Hughes (@ProfTerryHughes) June 9, 2021