article_snippet: Conservation groups have since hit out at the federal government saying the federal government should spend less time showing off Conservation groups efforts to journalists and more time protecting the Great Barrier Reef. '
article_snippet: We want to see the Great Barrier Reef fixed and protected,' Felicity Wishart, spokeswoman for the Australian Marine Conservation Society, told Daily Mail Australia. '
article_snippet: A spokesman for the DFAT told the Guardian diplomatic efforts, like the journalist junket, was needed to counter misinformation spread by conservationists about the Great Barrier Reef.
article_snippet: There is currently a campaign to list the Great Barrier Reef as in danger...
article_snippet: we think there are a number of assertions about the management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Great Barrier Reef vulnerability which are not grounded in fact and which need to be rebutted,' a number of assertions about the management of the Great Barrier Reef and its vulnerability which are not grounded in fact and which need to be rebutted said.
article_snippet: Environment Minister Greg Hunt stepped up the federal government's campaign against an 'in danger' listing last month arguing it is the 'best managed marine ecosystem in the world'.
article_snippet: but there's no protection of the Great Barrier Reef,' Ms Wishart said. '
article_snippet: Conservation groups have since hit out at the federal government saying the federal government should spend less time showing off Conservation groups efforts to journalists and more time protecting the Great Barrier Reef .
highlights_snippet: Environment groups say money should be spent on protecting reef .
  