Witness History
Witness History
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
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1 November 2019
9 minutes
Available for over a year
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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