Island Reef Job

The Island Reef Job is a job being the "caretaker" of Hamilton Island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. It has been called "the best job in the world." The island reef job would include a six-month stint on the Great Barrier Reef. Find out more about the island reef job here.

The job search is being launched by “Tourism Queensland” (no website provided in original article).

The job gets you:

1 £70,000 salary
2. Three-bedroom villa
3. Pool

Your duties include:
1. blog
2. press interviews
3. video diary

Says the report:

“Interested? The first step in securing this role is to send a 60-second video application explaining why you are the ideal person for it. But what do you need to do, and to emphasise, to put your application near the top of the pile?”

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Great Barrier Reef survival "requires 25 percent CO2 cut"

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef has only a 50 percent chance of survival if global CO2 emissions are not reduced at least 25 percent by 2020, a coalition of Australia's top reef and climate scientists said on Tuesday. The 13 scientists said even deeper cuts of up to 90 percent by 2050 would necessary if the reef was to survive future coral bleaching and coral death caused by rising ocean temperatures. "We've seen the evidence with our own eyes. Climate change is already impacting the Great Barrier Reef," Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at ... Read Full Story

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Outlook "poor" for Great Barrier Reef: study

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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are "poor," a major new report found on Wednesday. While the World Heritage-protected site, which sprawls for more than 345,000 square km (133,000 sq miles) off Australia's east coast, is in a better position than most other reefs globally, the risk of its destruction was mounting. "Even with the recent management initiatives to improve resilience, the overall outlook for the Great Barrier Reef is poor and catastrophic damage to the ecosystem may not be averted," a government ... Read Full Story

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Great Barrier Reef Tour

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Sensual seclusion on the Great Barrier Reef Aerial of Resort and Island, Hayman HALCYON waters, pristine white sand, balmy sea breeze and nobody in close sight. Add a trail of footprints ' yours and your partner's, that is. Strolling down a vast expanse of beach in ultimate seclusion can be consummated reality rather than wishing thinking on the islands of the Great Barrier Reef. After all, the world's greatest coral reef spans a whopping 348,700 square kilometres in area, with over 600 islands, 25 of which have resorts on them. Though all are located along the same stretch of the Queensland coastline, each island ... Read Full Story

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Great Barrier Reef under serious threat: report

From: www.afp.com

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in serious jeopardy as global warming and chemical runoff threaten to kill marine species and cause serious outbreaks of disease, a report warned Wednesday. The World Heritage-listed reef was already showing the impacts of climate change, with two episodes of mass coral bleaching in the past 10 years, the Marine Park Authority's inaugural reef outlook report said. "While populations of almost all marine species are intact and there are no records of extinctions, some ecologically important species, such as dugongs, marine turtles, seabirds, black teatfish and some sharks, have declined significantly," the authority wrote. Coral disease, outbreaks of toxic ... Read Full Story

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Australia 'reef and beef' project launced

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An Australian scientist Friday launched what he called a "reef and beef" study into whether feeding cows seaweed would reduce their flatulent carbon emissions, in a move that could help save the Great Barrier Reef. Tony Parker, from James Cook University, said cattle produced up to 20 percent of global man-made methane emissions, and the problem was largely linked to their diet. At least 50 percent of these cows lived in developing nations, many of which were in the tropics, where the quality of pasture tended to deteriorate in the winter, increasing emissions, Parker said. "Seaweed, algae and other sea grasses have been proven ... Read Full Story

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