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> Paris - Despite warnings, Australia's efforts to save the Great Barrier Reef still fall short of protecting the world's largest coral reef system from pollution and climate change, experts said Monday.

> Australia had taken unprecedented steps towards the protection of the Great Barrier Reef, which the United Nations has designated a world heritage site, but more was needed to avoid the site being declared "In danger" by UNESCO, the UN agency which compiles and manages a list of heritage sites.

> "Despite the unparalleled science and management efforts" made by Australia over recent years, the Great Barrier Reef is "Significantly impacted by climate change factors", Eleanor Carter at the International Union for Conservation of Nature and UNESCO representative Hans Thulstrup said in a report based on a mission to the Reef.

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