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Originally Posted by T3rminator
A lot of noise today about Great Barrier Reef being potentially added to the UNESCO World Heritage "in danger" list, due to climate change. A lot of the coverage has been on the politics.
What is not clear (to me anyways) is what does this actually mean for the local industry. Some of the news outlets mentioned there might be loss of revenue from tourism and job losses. Why would that be?
I would have thought it would attract more people to go visit something that might "disappear"?
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Naturally the idea is to preserve your world heritage sites and that would mean limit access and any potential development, with the case of Barrier reef it would mean restrict the numbers of operators and tourists accessing the reef.
Another example is look at Australia's national parks and the restrictions that has been imposed on peoples access to these places and what you are only allowed to do in them.