Ronald Greentree and his company Auen Grain fined $2.088 million for clearing 1,262 hectares of land containing critical habitat for 30 threatened species in New South Wales, Australia.
Ronald Greentree, former graincorp chair and prominent wheat farmer, along with his company Auen Grain, were sentenced to a record fine of over $1 million for illegal land-clearing in the north-west of Australia. The land, which was home to 30 threatened species including koalas, was cleared to make way for a private airstrip, crops and cattle yards on the property 'Boolcarrol', north-west of Narrabri.
Greentree and Auen Grain were found guilty of eight land-clearing events between December 2016 and January 2019. The court also ordered them to pay $278,000 for the prosecution’s legal costs
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