In just weeks 3,400 hectares of woodland in northern NSW could be bulldozed to make way for Australia's largest ever coal mines, destroying the habitat of 28 threatened species of plants and animals including woodland birds, bats, koalas and snakes.
Leard State Forest is of special significance for bat and bird conservation and its critically endangered ecological Box- Gum community. Nowhere else has the same abundance and diversity of bats as within Leard forest. Likewise the diversity and abundance of woodland birds is incredibly unique, with 14 threatened woodland species having been recorded.
If these mines go ahead this forest and habitat will be destroyed forever and in 20 years Australia will be left with nothing more than a huge hole in the ground.
The time is now to put pressure on the Prime Minister Tony Abbott and NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell to stop those bulldozers destroying the forest within weeks.
Act now to sign and share this petition urgently, before it's too late.
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