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Mining approval overturned in Macquarie Marshes


NCC Water Campaigner Mel Gray in the marshes. Photo Leanne Hall

The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, has expressed relief that the Resources Regulator overturned their decision to allow copper and gold mining exploration by Australian Consolidated Gold Holdings in the Macquarie Marshes in central-west NSW.

It is one of the largest remaining inland semi-permanent wetlands in South-Eastern Australia.

It encompasses a massive 200,000 hectares, including almost 20,000 hectares listed as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar convention. 

This is one of the most biologically diverse wetlands in the Murray Darling Basin that can support hundreds of thousands of water birds when the conditions are right. […]


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