
MEDIA RELEASE Statement from Goolarabooloo Law Boss Joseph Roe. Monday 15 August 2011 Baby bilbies caught on film at proposed gas hub site in the Kimberley Goolarabooloo insist Woodside cease landclearing immediately Following last week's discovery of adult Greater Bilbies at the proposed James Price Point gas hub site, research cameras have this week revealed a further three baby bilbies at the same location. These recent sightings of Greater Bilbies, including juveniles, are in the exact location that Woodside is currently undertaking landclearing at the proposed gas hub site. This landclearing is taking place prior to federal environmental approval for the project. "These pictures confirm what we as Goolarbooloo already knew: bilbies are here on this country. It's also what the Government's own reports have told them, if only they'd listen," Goolarabooloo Law Boss Joseph Roe said in Broome today. In 2008, the State Government's own reports identified a number of protected mammal species, including the Greater Bilby, likely to be found on the Dampier Peninsula (see attached fact sheet for details). This species faces a very high risk of extinction in the wild and is protected under both state and federal environmental laws, and listed globally on the World Conservation Union's 'red list' of endangered species In 2009, subsequent environmental surveys commissioned by the State Government found 'evidence of presence' of Greater Bilbies in the proposed precinct area <b>...</b>
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