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Risks to the Region’s values
2014 Summary of assessment
Overall risk to ecosystem
The Region’s ecosystem continues to be at serious risk and the threats likely to affect it in the future are increasing and compounding. The most serious risks arise from climate change, land-based run-off, coastal development and some aspects of direct use (particularly fishing). Other threats relating to direct use are more effectively managed and of less overall risk to the Reef. The close connections between the Region’s ecosystem and many of its heritage values mean that the projected risk of almost all threats is the same in both assessments. As a result, the most serious risks to the Region’s heritage values are similarly climate change, land-based run-off, coastal development and some aspects of direct use.
High risk, Increased, Increasing
Overall risk to heritage values
High risk, Increasing
Full assessment summary: see Section 9.4
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