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Witness History: Saving the Great Barrier Reef

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Saving the Great Barrier Reef

31/12/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Saving the Great Barrier Reef

In the 1960s the Queensland government wanted to mine and drill for oil on the reef

The 1960s campaigners who fought to save the world's biggest coral reef from mining and oil exploration. Eddie Hegerl says he was prepared to sacrifice everything.

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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