Dave Dudley calls for help cleaning up Australia's national parks

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Like many of Australia's national parks, the Whipstick Nature Conservation Reserve is littered with illegally dumped rubbish. Dave Dudley has started action groups in Victoria, Queensland, the Northern Territory and Tasmania to clean them up.

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00:00Just a few hundred metres from Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road, hundreds of kilograms of rubbish have

00:06been dumped in the whipsticks.

00:08Tires, nappies and old Christmas trees litter the once pristine bush surrounding Bendigo.

00:15Dave Dudley from Cleanup Victoria says Bendigo's mining history has left plenty of ditches

00:20to hide unwanted rubbish.

00:22Ah, well it gives people lots of places to dump their stuff, doesn't it?

00:26This is an old pit of some sort, an old open cut by the looks of it, I don't know what's

00:31down further, but there's that many places around here people can just back a trailer

00:36up to or a car and they just throw it over, over the edge, out of sight, out of mind until

00:41someone like me comes along and finds it.

00:46Every time I see someone out in the bush I'll talk to them and say, hey listen, are you

00:51sick of this?

00:52Do you want to do something about it?

00:54They walk on by and say, oh that's disgusting, someone should do something about this, well

00:59be that someone, don't just talk about it or look at it and find it appalling, action

01:04it and make a difference.

01:06A kid's beanie, another beanie.

01:11We're supposed to be the pinnacle of the species on this planet and look at the way we're treating

01:16it.

01:17If we can't sort this now with all our technology that we use to make this stuff, if we can't

01:20sort it to clean it up, we've got real drama.

01:23Whether you're bagging a bag of litter or sending a snap-send solving to the council

01:27because you've found something, everything's making, every little bit can make a difference.

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