Chinese Unesco official defends plan to list Great Barrier Reef as 'in danger'

Tian Xuejun rejects Australia's 'groundless accusations' that China influenced the finding to score political pointsThe Chinese host of a United Nations world heritage committee has defended a proposal to label the Great Barrier Reef as "in danger", and rejected Australian government suspicion that China influenced the finding for political reasons.It came as the Morrison government sought to use a new report by Australia's marine science agency to argue there had been widespread coral recovery on the reef. Continue reading...