UN mission must see coral bleaching to get ‘whole picture’ of Great Barrier Reef, experts say

Government's reef envoy says visiting scientists have to see the good and the bad' as widespread bleaching confirmed

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A UN mission under way in Queensland to see if the Great Barrier Reef should be put on an in danger" list will not get the whole picture" unless it visits reefs currently experiencing coral bleaching, conservationists and the government's own reef envoy have said.

Details of the 10-day mission, which began on Monday in Brisbane, are being kept confidential and the locations to be visited have not been formally disclosed.