largest coral reef eco system and includes some three thousand individual reefs. but not far from the reef on the mainland at abbot point there are manmade mountains of coal the world s largest coal porters being built here coal of all things a major greenhouse gas source but me a biology beach the locals are sea they angry their government has approved the terminals construction they say coal and coral just don t go together. to raise him up right here i m devastated if we are building this mine adanis building this mine with a culture of you know i think four thousand. ships out there how is that going to possibly benefit the world queensland tourism operators and kids who have an expectation they re going to see the same beauty that we see every day. the reef is roughly ten thousand years old local say it s in the process of dying on the