The US forces are to use Shoalwater Bay in central Queensland for a training base. Military officials say they are concerned about the environment and acting responsibly. Some locals are concerned about the pollution possibilities …

Bob Brown paddles along the tranquil final stretches of the Franklin River. This is as it must have looked even before the first Europeans arrived in Tasmania.

Rat tails bring a reward of sixpence each (equivalent to about $5 today) and Lord Howe Island locals join the hunt for the pests. Two women take their three fox terriers to smoke out a …

Environmentalist Bill Mollison explains the value and purpose of forest.

The great expanse of salt that is Lake Eyre sits 15 metres below sea level with temperatures that can soar to 60 degrees Celsius. For the most part, the Lake Eyre dragons – and the ants …

Over footage of a beautiful old growth forest, narrator Noni Hazlehurst explains that, at the current rate of deforestation, Australia’s unprotected forests could no longer exist in 250 years’ time. The forest’s native …

Local businessman Steve Bishopric, boating down a river with Peter Garrett, suggests ecotourism as a solution.

The clip shows how the process of regular and repeated burning and clearing in the Snowy Mountains had caused a series of disastrous environmental events, leading inevitably to large tracts of unproductive land.

As the Eucumbene Dam (then called Adaminaby Dam) nears completion, the final building arrives at the new Adaminaby, and the waters of the new Lake Eucumbene begin to rise.

Shows the cycle of drilling, firing and hauling of materials in the construction of Talbingo Reservoir on the Snowy Mountains Scheme.

A montage of rainforest wilderness is accompanied by an essay in voice-over extolling the value of rainforest to humankind, including that it is the place to experience nature and regeneration.