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Saving the Great Barrier 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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