Coorong Lakes and Murray Waterkeeper in Canberra Times
Storm Boy landscape ‘in crisis’
BY ROSSLYN BEEBY
SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTER
28/06/2008 12:00:00 AM
The Rudd Government faces global censure at an international wetlands conference in South Korea over its failure to take emergency action to save the dying Coorong wetlands, conservationists say.
The support of high-profile global ”green” celebrities is also being sought to demand the Government move more swiftly to save the coastal ”lagoon and dune” landscape in South Australia where Colin Thiele’s award-winning children’s book Storm Boy was filmed in the mid-1970s.
The region was now so environmentally degraded it was ‘’scarcely recognisable” as the landscape depicted in the much-loved Australian classic, Coorong, Lakes and Murray Waterkeeper, Paul Davis said.
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