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Saving the Great Barrier Reef
In the 1960s conservationists began fighting to prevent the Queensland government from allowing mining and oil drilling on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
In 1975 it was declared a Marine Park by the Australian government.
Eddie Hegerl has spent his life trying to protect the coral reef from destruction and says every time he dives there he finds something new.
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