Native bees attempting to fly across patches of cleared land in Western Australia’s Kimberley region would overheat and drop dead before ever reaching the other side, unable to find food or an area to rest.
The lines are the result of seismic surveys by companies looking for oil and gas to extract and a testament to the region’s growing industry, which extends west to Broome and east to the doorstep of the Gibb River Road. “The lines are getting bigger and bigger and longer and longer. So on our country now we can go to Tasmania and back to Darwin on those lines.”A bulldozer clears native vegetation in Kurrajong.The Environmental Protection Regulations 2004 allow petroleum titleholders to clear vegetation without a permit for oil and gas exploration as long as it isn’t within an ‘environmentally sensitive area’.
Seismic surveys are carried out to find pockets of gas to frack. They use trucks to lower a plate onto the ground which generates an acoustic signal that provides information about an area’s geographical make-up.Located almost 3000 kilometres north-east of Perth, the Kimberley is one of Australia’s largest biodiversity hotspots and home to more than 65 species that are found nowhere else on Earth.
An ant nest and boab trees near Logue River, east of Broome. The area is within Buru Energy’s exploration permit areas.Activities that disturbed threatened fauna had to be authorised under the state’s Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, a spokesman from Environment Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson’s office said.
MartaPascual3 Australia termed the burnt country, should be bent country
MartaPascual3 Incredibly disgusting! All under the failed LNP federal government watch. Boot them at the election.
MartaPascual3 This is disgusting. It's bad enough we have 1799 endangered species. Australia does more land clearing than any developed nation.
MartaPascual3 I reckon LNP donor's would also be allowed to clear vegetation if they wanted to. That's how it works, isn't it? 🤔
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