Raine Island, a 52-acre half-moon of sand on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef, is the biggest nesting island on Earth for green sea turtles. More than 90 percent of the northern Great Barrier ...

Recent heat extremes in the seas around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are ... creatures including the large green turtle and the sea cow (dugong). The reef, which was listed as a World ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is home ... beautiful corals and water clarity, the reef was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Area in 1981. Several reef species, including dugongs and loggerhead ...

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most unique and diverse ... including the dugong (or "sea cow") and the green sea turtle UNESCO World Heritage Centre. It is important to protect the reef ...

The World Wildlife Fund attached a GoPro to a turtle swimming to monitor levels of pollution within the Great Barrier Reef. The video’s release coincides with the United Nations Educational ...

Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives, parrotfish teeth ... Cardinalfish zip by a hawksbill turtle as it rests among feathery invertebrates called ...

Dugongs and sea turtles swim in the waters around the island. Part of the outer Great Barrier Reef, Wheeler Reef lies some 40 nautical miles off the coast of Townsville. Wheeler Reef is off the beaten ...

Many visitors say the Great Barrier ... of fish, sea turtles and humpback whales, Cairns' reefs are teeming with wildlife. Known locally as the Outer Barrier Reef, these reefs are ideal for ...