Saving the Reef: The human story behind one of Australia's greatest environmental treasures

by Rohan Lloyd

While in the past Australians wrestled with what the Reef is, today they are struggling to reconcile what it will be ... To do this, we need to understand the Reef' s intertwining human story. The Great Barrier Reef has come to dominate Australian imaginations and global environmental politics. Saving the Reef charts the social history of Australia' s most prized yet vulnerable environment, from the relationship between First Nations peoples and colonial settlers, to the Reef' s most portentous moment – the Save the Reef campaign launched in the 1960s. Through this gripping narrative and interwoven contemporary essays, historian Rohan Lloyd reveals how the Reef' s continued decline is forcing us to reconsider what ‘ saving' the Reef really means.

Genres: Australia

306 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 5, 2022

Reviews

[Charlotte Kajewski · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was so excellently written for the common audience to understand. Everything was sourced to perfection (I believe this was a part of a PhD thesis so this makes sense), and truly made me understand the fight and effort that occurred to get the GBR the protection status it has today, and truly made me think about how if these circumstances existed today, we may not make the same choices, so where does that leave us in the future?