The severity and frequency of these [bleaching] events means slow-growing corals won't have time to come back, if all the coral bleaches and dies, it's no longer a coral reef. The coral skeletons are quickly colonized by algae which turns them dark in color.

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There are a range of views in the scientific community about whether these methods are worth trying, if we stabilize the climate then there's a chance these methods will work. If we don't stabilize the climate then I don't think they have a good chance of working.

[In the last three decades] coral cover went from 28% to 13%. Preliminary estimates [from last year's disaster] are saying we've lost half that amount again. To have that kind of mortality on that kind of scale is unprecedented.

Coral cover [on the Great Barrier Reef] has halved over the last... by Sean Connolly

Coral cover [on the Great Barrier Reef] has halved over the last 27 years.

While we believe that we can create a lot of value with ConAgra Foods, that's only going to happen if we make bold change, and we're going to continue to push for change.

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We know that the inconsistency of our past performance is totally... by Sean Connolly

We know that the inconsistency of our past performance is totally unacceptable.