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Saving Australian Savanna

From: Pat Maxwell
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Length: 01:27

Welcome to the world's largest tropical grasslands. Covering more territory than all of Western Europe, they stretch for over twelve hundred miles across Northern Australia. Read the full description.

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Playing: Saving Australian Savanna
From: Pat Maxwell

Default-piece-image-1 Welcome to the world's largest tropical grasslands. Covering more territory than all of Western Europe, they stretch for over twelve hundred miles across Northern Australia. That's a bloody big savanna, mate! Scientists recently completed a three-year study of this region led by Professor Brendon Mackey, who was impressed not only by its size, but also by it's condition...

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Welcome to the world's largest tropical grasslands. Covering more territory than all of Western Europe, they stretch for over twelve hundred miles across Northern Australia. That's a bloody big savanna, mate! Scientists recently completed a three-year study of this region led by Professor Brendon Mackey, who was impressed not only by its size, but also by it's condition...