19K views · 330 shares | More breaking footage from the Reef: first raw video images of the coral bleaching that is occurring on Lizard Island. Watch and listen as our Great Barrier Reef campaigner Louise Matthiesson talks through what we're seeing, and what can be done to stop it. (Huge thanks to our cameraman who patiently waited 30+ hours for this to upload from remote Lizard Island!) #reefbleach2016 #fightforthereef | WWF-Australia | Facebook

Clerke Reef at Rowley Shoals is showing widespread effects of coral bleaching from the marine heatwave last summer. Yachtie Jim Miles sent ABC Kimberley underwater footage taken this week of the reef and said it was a "shock" to see so much alage covered, dead coral. "Everywhere we jump in the water, it's really horrific - it's the worst I've seen so far," Jim Miles, who's spent spending months sailing from Queensland back home to WA, said. "The fish life is also less." Last summer brought the l