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The Cool Down

The Cool Down

Experts dismayed after discovering vital ecosystem destroyed at popular vacation spot: 'It takes over 30 years ... to recover'

The Cool Down
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Australia 's Great Barrier Reef has a silent, largely unheralded protector: salt marshes.

These muddy patches just inland from coastal mangrove forests play crucial roles in keeping the reef as healthy as possible.

Ecologists in the area were dismayed recently when they noticed deep tire ruts blasting through the salt marshhes at Agnes Water .