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Envoy: Shark Cull

And when I turned 14, I really startedto focus on things that were happeningin my own...

And when I turned 14, I really started
to focus on things that were happening
in my own backyard, which was the Great Barrier
Reef where I grew up diving, and I had no idea
that there were things threatening what I always
thought was a Marine Park

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And when I turned 14,
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I really started to focus on things
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that were happening in my own backyard,
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which was the Great Barrier Reef where I grew up diving,
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and I had no idea that there were things
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threatening what I always thought was a Marine Park.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
42
Timestamp in Movie
00:37:37
Uploaded
May 09, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

Off the beautiful beaches, among breathtaking coral reefs of Australia lurks a deadly and indiscriminate killer. It's thirst for blood kills 1000s each and every year. It's not sharks. It's the Government Shark Control Program.
They've got drumlines - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:05
They've got drumlines
One of the seven natural wonders of the world. - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:05
One of the seven natural wonders of the world.
We're not just fishing it and wiping it out. - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:04
We're not just fishing it and wiping it out.
We're killing the doctors of the reef. - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:05
We're killing the doctors of the reef.
The animals that keep the whole ecosystem in check. - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:05
The animals that keep the whole ecosystem in check.
Now what does that tell you - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:06
Now what does that tell you
[Bana] As politicians debate human lives versus shark lives, - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:11
[Bana] As politicians debate human lives versus shark lives,
One simple question in this whole culling debate - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:07
One simple question in this whole culling debate
[Lawrence Chlebeck] So a few years back, - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:13
[Lawrence Chlebeck] So a few years back,
So we had a look at that permit and we realized - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:18
So we had a look at that permit and we realized
We had a look at that permit, and we're trying to investigate - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:07
We had a look at that permit, and we're trying to inves...
So we called our good friends, the Environmental Defenders Office, - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:08
So we called our good friends, the Environmental Defenders O...
And that's when we learned - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:07
And that's when we learned
The first of which is that removing apex predators - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:10
The first of which is that removing apex predators
And second of all, and probably most importantly, - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:08
And second of all, and probably most importantly,
The Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries' - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:10
The Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries'
We got a ten minute heads-up from our lawyers - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:05
We got a ten minute heads-up from our lawyers
And so it's ten minutes of stressful waiting, - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:17
And so it's ten minutes of stressful waiting,
Sharks caught on drumlines will no longer be killed - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:10
Sharks caught on drumlines will no longer be killed
While the ruling is limited to the Great Barrier Reef for now, - Envoy: Shark Cull 00:07
While the ruling is limited to the Great Barrier Reef for no...