Description of the Great Barrier Reef and industrial exploitation; includes description of dugong and turtle hunting by Aborigines and story of Damori and Quial.

On the Reef : scientists versus starfish -- On tourism's special island -- Outer Barrier's big-game hunt -- "Controlled exploitation" -- John Busst, conservationsist leader -- The Reef defended in court -- Canefields & coral -- Lime, oil & other esources -- Heron Island, with reptiles & researchers -- Scientists, politics & starfish -- Threats from a developing coast -- The Aborigines -- Oil, politicians & international law -- A cruise around Whitsunday -- Remembering a whale hunt -- Anticipating an oil hunt -- Offshore rights : whose? -- A tanker pours oil on Reef waters.