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You're listening to the BBC World Service and now Witness History with Me Claire Bowes.

It's 75 years since the creation of the United Nations Scientific Cultural and Educational body,

UNESCO, which has helped the world recognize and protect its most precious sights.

In 1981, the Great Barrier Reef was awarded UNESCO World Heritage

status. I've been speaking to conservationist and campaigner Eddie Hegel, who helped save the reef when the Queensland State Government

began looking at applications to mine and drill for oil there in the 1960s.

Well the man who wanted to mine it for a limestone actually claimed it was a dead reef.

And that was strange because as marine biologists we didn't know we had any dead reefs on the Great Barrier Reef.

Eddie Hego is a marine biologist who's spent more than half a century diving the Great Barrier Reef.

I spoke to him on the beach as he looked out at the coral sea, the home of the reef, off the

North Queensland coast.

The whole barrier reef system, at least at the time, was absolutely marvelous and it never was a dull day where you thought,

oh well I'm just going on the barrier

it was always a very special experience and a privilege. To him the

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