March 10, 2014
A man who climbed a Box Gum tree on Sunday evening in an area of the Leard forest slated for imminent clearing for the expansion of the Boggabri mine is maintaining his tree-top vigil this morning. The platform on which he is suspended in the tree is in the middle of...
February 11, 2014
The top image shows newly bulldozed trees at Idemitsu’s Boggabri open-cut coal mine in Leard State Forest. The existing mine has already cleared hundreds of hectares of the forest and is currently clearing so that it can expand further into the forest. The bottom...
December 4, 2013
Call to Action! Maules Creek is a small farming community that sits on the outskirts of the Leard State Forest in north west NSW. Right now, the community’s health and the productivity of the farmland is at risk of being destroyed by the massive new open-cut...
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