Coral bleaching recorded along WA coast as heat resilient reef projects start up

As the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland suffers through a mass bleaching event, marine scientists in Western Australia have had their fingers crossed that the state’s stunning corals do not suffer a similar fate.

The whitening of corals – often triggered by warmer waters as coral is stressed, loses its colour and become more susceptible to disease – was observed late last month across hundreds of kilometres from the Kimberley down to the Exmouth Gulf.