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South Australian Bloom Crisis: Environmental catastrophe prompts Calls for Federal Support

A New Environmental Crisis Unfolds

This afternoon, South Australia’s environment minister Mari Watt is scheduled to visit Adelaide to assess the firsthand impact of a severe and unprecedented algal bloom threatening the region's marine ecosystems and local industries. The bloom was initially detected off the Florio Peninsula in March and has since escalated into a full-blown ecological crisis unlike anything previously recorded in the country.