Leard State forest has been the largest area of intact remnant vegetation remaining in the northern Liverpool Plains. Part of this forest is nationally-listed and critically endangered box-gum woodland, of which only 0.1% remains where once it existed through much of the eastern states.
Australia’s newest multi-national coal venture, Whitehaven, and Japanese corporation Idemitsu. Their mines are coming towards each other from either end of the forest, clearfelling the centre for open cut coal pits.
Read more ~ Destruction of the Leard and threat to the Pilliga concerns everyone | Special Report, The District Bulletin
By Maria Taylor
