say the barrier reef or not? is say the barrier reef or not? is definitely in not and that has been indicated over the last 18 months or so. the institute of marine science as a long—term monitoring programme which is the long term monitoring and it came out earlier this year showing that an increase in coral cover over the last 12 or 18 months. coral spawning is just one of those many ecological functions that can assist it. but the critical part is that we need the reef to have time from these big events to give an opportunity for different mechanisms to actually work and take effect and this is what it is shown in the last 18 months. they can be significantly greater than that is what we are starting to see and seeing the coral spawn is just another verification that it is not too late and we can