John Büsst

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Author: Iain McCalmanTitle: John B"usstBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 272Release Date: 0000-00-00Details: Award-winning historian Iain McCalman reveals the little-known story o f influential Australian conservationist, John Bu" sst. Known to his enemies as ' The Bingal Bay Bastard' , Bu" sst, a Bendigo-born Melbourne bohemian artist, transformed into a brilliant conservationist who, in the 1960s and early 70s, led campaigns to protect two of Australia' s most important and endangered environments. The first saved Australia' s endangered lowland rainforests and led to the subsequent UNESCO World Heritage Listing of our Wet Tropics Rainforest Area. The second stopped Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen' s attempt to mine 80 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef for oil, gas and limestone fertiliser. A plan Bu" sst likened to ' bulldozing the Taj Mahal to make road gravel' . Instead, the victory led to the UNESCO World Heritage Listing of the Great Barrier Reef as ' the most important marine system in the world' . Sadly, both face renewed threat today.EAN: 9781761170096Package Dimensions: Height: 8.26 inches, Length: 5.3 inches, Weight: 0.916 pounds, Width: 0.77 inches Show more