This week Sam and Jack are joined by Jemila Rushton from the Friends of the Earth Melbourne's Gas Collective and joined Keerray Woorroong Gunditjmara First Nations Peoples this World Environment Day to Protect Whale Songline Country in Gunditjmara Sea Country. Jemila kindly recorded this special event which Dirt Radio is airing in a two part series.
Every year Koontapool (Southern Right Whales) return to their birthing grounds along the coastlines of South West Victoria. Travelling up from the colder Southern and Antarctic waters, they use the southern coast, waters and songlines to navigate their journeys to and through Gunditjmara Sea Country to feed and birth. Over the past year we have seen state and federal governments earmark vast expanses of Gunditjmara Sea Country for a massive expansion of gas mining as part of a national economic recovery.
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See the call to action is the Citizens Protection Declaration which is listed here: https://drillwatch.org.au/
Part two of this special event will be broadcast on Dirt Radio on the 21st June 2022
Photo of the Southern Right Whale by Cape Whale Coast
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