'A bad joke': Warning sounded on endangered species in NSW

By Peter Hannam
Updated March 14 2017 - 8:38pm, first published 8:34pm
Photographs shows the clear felling of the Leard Forest and construction of Whitehavens' ?? Maules Creek coal mine near Boggabri. Greenpeace activists opposed to the mines' construction have an established tree sit in place to stop the felling of the endangered forest and?? are surrounded by?? mine security and police rescue units.Photographs by Dean Sewell. S.M.H. News.Taken Sunday 1st June 2014.?? 

das140601.001.001.send.jpg Photo: Dean Sewell
Photographs shows the clear felling of the Leard Forest and construction of Whitehavens' ?? Maules Creek coal mine near Boggabri. Greenpeace activists opposed to the mines' construction have an established tree sit in place to stop the felling of the endangered forest and?? are surrounded by?? mine security and police rescue units.Photographs by Dean Sewell. S.M.H. News.Taken Sunday 1st June 2014.?? das140601.001.001.send.jpg Photo: Dean Sewell

Despite almost 60 per cent of NSW's mammal species and a third of the birds on the endangered list, the Berejiklian government is persisting with conservation schemes that amount to a "bad joke", critics say.

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