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its fast growing coral which is great but fast growing also means fast dieing. You need bio-diveristy in a reef

The way I read it, this is more of "some things seem to be going from bad to less bad" rather than "everything is fine". There's still many warning signs, and there's nothing suggesting the problems with the GBR is somehow solved.

>> There's still many warning signs, and there's nothing suggesting the problems with the GBR is somehow solved.

From the article:

>> On the Central and Northern GBR, region-wide hard coral cover reached 33% and 36%, respectively; the highest level recorded in the past 36 years of monitoring.

I'm not sure what problems you're referring to. What I'm getting from the article is that there are good and bad years for the reef, and at present there is no evidence of long term decline or some kind of permanent destruction.

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