There are serious flaws in state and federal policy that allow significant conservation areas, rich in biodiversity and carbon, to be destroyed for the sake of digging up more climate-changing coal. In an era where climate change and food security should be at the top of government agendas, the superior rights that mineral interests hold over all other land uses are in desperate need of review.

What you can do: 1. Queensland residents can sign the petition here, the text of which is to also be found here. 2. To learn more of the devastation with which the Bimblebox Nature Refuge is threatened by the proposed open-cut coal mine, please visit www.bimblebox.org.