A Gentle Giant

Director: Mark Pearce
Production Country: Australia
Production Year։ 2016
Duration։ 4 min

Synopsis

Armed with bone-crushing pincers and a rugged exoskeleton, it’s hard to believe that a menacing-looking creature would ever have difficulty defending itself. Known to grow to the size of a small dog and live to 40 years old, the giant Tasmanian freshwater lobster is the largest of its kind in the entire world, but it’s under immediate threat.

The normally pristine streams it calls home are being polluted by sediment runoff from logging. However, there is hope; Todd Walsh the lobster man has grown up with this crayfish that gently inches its way around the northern rivers of the island – this is his plea to protect a rare and remarkable Australian creature.