An Interview with Jessica Gerger. Environmentalist, Actor, Director, Filmmaker, Teacher.
Janice: Jessica, tell me about your local environmental concerns? Jessica: My local environmental concerns focus on restoration and conservation of my local waterway - the Kororoit Creek. I'm president of the Friends of Kororoit Creek and we are working hard to help widen and improve the creek corridor - for wildlife, for people and for the strength of the plants themselves. The type of environmental group we are working on is an open grassy woodland or riparian woodland - which are some of the most threatened habitats in the world. We are concerned with litter and pollution as well as the break neck speed of development occurring along the creek and in the outer parts of Melbourne. Large parts of the areas outside the city which were once fields of indigenous grasses, wildflowers and volcanic rock were then cleared many years ago to use as pasture land and are now being cleared again to turn in to endless swathes of huge grey houses with little to no gardens and no pub...