Fighting for Fraser Island: how tourism and climate change put an ancient environment at risk

Campaigners who helped end logging and mining in the spectacular paradise of lakes, rainforests and beaches now fear global heatingBefore he died in February 2019, John Sinclair had been fighting for Fraser Island off the Queensland coast for the best part of 50 years.In the early 1970s the world's biggest sand island - an ethereal paradise of lakes, towering rainforests and ancient dunes - was under pressure from sand mining and more than a century of logging. Continue reading...