A mining lease being sought for a proposed coalmine is being challenged in the state’s land court
The bridled nail-tail wallaby was once thought to be extinct before it was rediscovered outside the central Queensland town of Dingo, near the site of a proposed coalmine.The bridled nail-tail wallaby was once thought to be extinct before it was rediscovered outside the central Queensland town of Dingo, near the site of a proposed coalmine.
Because while the rediscovery of a species believed driven to extinction – in a large part by habitat destruction – provides “a second chance”, having a single population carries with it a “very strong risk” of disasters such as wildfire, drought or disease.Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morningWallaby Lane was to be severed under the Walton mine proposal.
Naughton bought his property in 1991 with the ambition to build a forever home and run cattle. Twenty-one years later he is still living in a donga and agists others’ livestock on his paddocks. Because not long after Naughton bought his land, plans to mine it first surfaced. Under various guises, those plans have been floating ever since.“It’d break my heart seeing the damn thing bulldozed,” he says.
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