Coral bleaching badly affected reefs of Kimberley, study finds

Up to 80% of Kimberley's inshore reef bleached in El Nino heatwave of 2016, with about 29% of the coral at Rottnest, off Perth, also affected

Up to 80% of coral in inshore reefs in the Kimberley was bleached during the global mass bleaching event that also affected 93% of the Great Barrier Reef in the summer of 2016-2016, according to new research.

Led by scientists from the University of Western Australia and published in Scientific Reports this week, the research found between 57% and 80% of corals in the Kimberley, particularly at Montgomery Reef, the largest inshore coral reef in Australia, were bleached in April 2016.