Saving the Great Barrier Reef
The 1960s campaigners who fought the government to save the world's biggest coral reef.
Witness History · BBC World Service
November 1, 20199m 9s
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Show Notes
In the 1960s conservationists began a campaign to prevent the Queensland government from allowing mining and oil drilling on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Eddie Hegerl told Claire Bowes that he and his wife were prepared to sacrifice everything to protect the world's biggest coral reef from destruction.
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