FOI18/198 Document 1
Bleaching death on this scale 
not detected in a set of AIMS 
coral cores (400 years old)
• Bleaching in 2016-17
– successive years, different
places
• 2014-16 +ve coral growth
post cyclones, then about
50% lo
under FOIss of coral in 2016;
• 2017 -- surveys done
annually reporting in about 6
months
Released  • Coral loss Likely a further
20% (excl TC Debbie) in 2017
• Note:  heat accumulation by
31 March greater than 2016

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FOI18/198 Document 1
under FOI
Released 
Summer 2016-17
(Bleaching, Disease, COTS, Cyclone)

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