This has been the saddest research trip of my life, almost without exception, every reef we flew across showed consistently high levels of bleaching, from the reef slope right up onto the top of the reef. We flew for 4000 kilometers (2,485 miles) in the most pristine parts of the Great Barrier Reef and saw only four reefs that had no bleaching. The severity is much greater than in earlier bleaching events in 2002 or 1998.

Terry Hughes

Terry Hughes is a British television director. He has won a BAFTA Award and two Emmy Awards. Hughes has produced or directed BBC TV variety shows such as Val Doonican, Harry Secombe and Kenneth Williams and series such as Ripping Yarns. He is probably best known for being the producer and director of The Two Ronnies from 1971-76. He earned six consecutive BAFTA nominations for his work on this show, winning once in 1976. In 1985, Hughes won an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Variety or Music Program for directing the televised version of the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring George Hearn and Angela Lansbury. Also in America, he has produced and directed The Golden Girls, 3rd Rock from the Sun and Friends. Hughes was the main series director of The Golden Girls for the shows first five seasons from 1985-1990, directing 108 episodes. He won an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series in 1987, for the season two episode Isn't it Romantic In 1972 he was the director for the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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