Leonardo DiCaprio Puts Australia On Blast For Great Barrier Reef Dumping

Because nothing is legitimised until an Oscar nominated actor says it, Leonardo DiCaprio has at last shared his opinion on the current state of the Great Barrier Reef, anchoring an address given at the Our Ocean conservation conference in Washington DC this week with a firsthand account of how he has seen its health deteriorate.
The most committed/successful Vinny Chase method actor in Hollywood joined US Secretary Of State John Kerry on stage to announce he was pledging $7 million to ‘meaningful conservation projects’ over the next two years, warning against the devastating effects of “plundering the ocean” by discussing how he’d seen the largest coral reef ecosystem on earth perish before his eyes as needlessly and as tragically as a young man dying of hypothermia because he couldn’t fit on the door properly (even though he totally could have). 

“Since my very first dive in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia 20 years ago to the dive I got to do in the very same location just two years ago, I’ve witnessed environmental devastation first-hand,” he said. “What once had looked like an endless underwater utopia is now riddled with bleached coral reefs and massive dead zones.”  

“Unfortunately today, there’s no proper law enforcement capacity and little accountability for violating the law. It’s the Wild West on the high seas,” he warned.
This follows the highly contentious decision to approve dredge spoil dumping from the Abbot Point coal terminal in the Marine Park area, with three million cubic metres of dredge spoil dumped within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area to create one of the world’s biggest coal ports.
Meanwhile, UNESCO decides tonight whether or not to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”.
 

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