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Crown-of-thorns starfish: New method kills more than 250,000 marine pests on Great Barrier Reef
ABC News
22 April 2014
More than 250,000 crown-of-thorns starfish have been removed from the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland in the past two years, Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt says.
The pest is considered to be one of the biggest threats to the reef and has traditionally been hard to destroy. Read more
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