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SYDNEY Allen Craig Pirates Jersey , April 24 (Xinhua) -- Australia's shrill blame-game over the decaying state of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) has potentially reached a turning point after new research effectively exonerated the mining industry -- the high-profile target of a bitter two- year public campaign.

Environmentally anxious Australia has been in a state of extended national hysteria in the wake of a 2012 report that revealed the World Heritage listed GBR had lost 47 percent of its coral over the preceding 27 years.

Despite the authors of that report -- the Australian Institute of Marine Science and Wollongong University -- stating unequivocally that coral loss was attributable to storms (48 percent), crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks (42 percent) and coral bleaching (10 percent), the booming mining industry has provided a convenient scapegoat for a public wrestling with the role mining now plays in Australia's two-speed economy.

Australian Greens commented the Australian government's 40 million AU dollars Reef Trust as a "continuation of Tony Abbott's protection racket for overseas mining companies" Thursday.

Queensland Resources Council (QRC) Chief Executive Michael Roche said that activists here are "ignoring the scientific evidence" and "blatantly peddling the line to Australian and international audiences" that port developments Tyson Ross Pirates Jersey , dredging and shipping are endangering the reef.

"The activists" stated objective is to shut down Queensland's export coal and gas industries, Roche told Xinhua.

The report, released this week Chase Headley Pirates Jersey , confirmed that shipping and dredging overwhelmingly fell within environmental approvals with 43 of the monitoring programs reviewed showing reported impacts at 62 percent consistency, 21 percent reporting impacts less than approved and only 5 percent reporting greater than approved.

In some areas the impact on inshore coral was 20-times less than expected.

"Assumptions by some stakeholders of widespread and unintended impacts to areas of high conservation value, such as the Great Barrier Reef Brad Hand Pirates Jersey , are not supported by the results from extensive monitoring of many recent dredging projects in northern Australia undertaken in similar environmental settings," the report notes.

According to marine expert Amy Wilks, the finely balanced GBR environment is at imminent risk from a host of threats from agricultural run-off Johnny Manziel Pirates Jersey , coral bleaching, over-fishing, tourism... but most significantly Randy Jones Pirates Jersey , climate change.

She told Xinhua, "certainly the biggest impacts that we're most concerned about with our reefs is the impact from climate change. So climate change is having massive ramifications on the reef -- warming ocean waters; acidification of the oceans which effect our corals and then you've got all the man made influences from fishing pressures -- so our sharks are in decline worldwide and that impacts down the food chain as well."

In recognition of its globally significance, UNESCO listed the Great Barrier Reef as a World Heritage Site in 1981.

Running adjacent to the Queensland coast of Australia Rickey Henderson Pirates Jersey , the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral habitat and one of the most diverse ecosystems on earth -- it is also one of the most threatened. Despite its World Heritage status, human activity lies at the heart of a problem that has gripped Australia and prompted the Federal Government to set up the 40 million dollar AU dollars trust as part of a number of initiatives to combat the reef's many threats.

Also finding traction is a government funded cull of the ravenous coral-eating crown-of-thorns that, according to Greg Hunt Ozzie Smith Pirates Jersey , the environment minister, which has seen some 250,000 starfish killed over the past 21 months.

Roche encouraged Australians to seek out the scientific analysis of the true state of the reef for themselves.

"Dredging and seabed placement continues to be misrepresented as an environmental threat to the Great Barrier Reef by activists whose only objective is to close down Queensland's export coal and gas industries."

Roche added that no increase in shipping traffic nor port dredging has been scientifically recorded as contributing to coral cover loss or a historical decline in the environmental health of the Great Barrier Reef.

"The scientific work into the ongoing environmental management of the Great Barrier Reef is no secret Eric Hosmer Pirates Jersey , and that is why we are asking Australians to learn more from the Queensland Government's Reef Facts website," he said.

In a statement released Thursday, Senator Waters lambasted the government's culling policy and the Reef Trust Cory Spangenberg Pirates Jersey , saying "the Greens will continue to stand with all those who love our Reef and want it protected, while the government runs a protection racket for overseas mining companies' profits."

BEIJING， Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Correcting miscarriages of justice and ensuring fairness in every case is crucial to the rule of law in China， the Communist Party of China's mouthpiece the People Daily said in a commentary Monday.

The Supreme People's Court (SPC) Thursday issued a ruling that favored part of the claims lodged by U.S. basketball star Michael Jordan and repealed all previous judgements.

The court ruled that the trademark in dispute， "Qiaodan，" the Chinese translation for Jordan， violated Jordan's right to his name and broke provisions in the Trademark Law.

Registration of the "Qiaodan" trademark will also be revoked.

The court also ruled that Jordan has no exclusive rights to the use of the alphabetic spelling of "Qiaodan，" which is the pinyin (phonetic spelling) of the Chinese characters， and rejected his claims in this regard.

The ruling by the SPC reflects China's resolve to strengthen protection on intellectual property rights and the lawful interests of both Chinese and foreign property owners， the article said.

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