Researchers worried Shenhua's Watermark Coal Mine could wipe out crucial koala habitat

By Cody Tsaousis
Updated June 22 2021 - 12:49am, first published March 15 2021 - 6:30pm
KOALA CONCERNS: A proposed rail loop associated with the Shenhua Watermark Coal Mine is set to go through a habitat which is now being described as a 'core corridor'. Photo: File.
KOALA CONCERNS: A proposed rail loop associated with the Shenhua Watermark Coal Mine is set to go through a habitat which is now being described as a 'core corridor'. Photo: File.

A RAIL loop included in the plans for the proposed Shenhua Watermark Coal Mine could destroy a core koala habitat, and there may be no adequate area to relocate them due to a lack of suitable trees.

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