We have only until midnight, Friday 8 August to speak up to defend a huge swath of Northern Territory savannah home to threatened animals, and one of Australia’s last free-flowing rivers!
Freshwater sawfish, Gouldian finches, and ghost bats are just some of the threatened animals in danger from bulldozing at Spirit Hills Station and damming of the Keep River for a massive cotton expansion.
What’s unbelievable is that an NT land-clearing project has never before been fully assessed under Australia’s national nature laws – and we’re rapidly losing time to make this one the first.
Take one minute now to forward this letter to Environment Minister Murray Watt to fully assess the nature impacts of this savannah-flattening, water-guzzling cotton plan!
Here's what's at stake:
👉 Spirit Hills on the Keep River is part of an extraordinary living landscape that connects to globally protected wetlands and floodplains.
👉 This proposal is just the first step in AAM Investment Group’s staged plans for massive cotton expansion through more than 24,500 hectares of land.
👉 Cotton needs heaps of water, and the project will impact the flows and water quality of some of Australia’s last free-flowing rivers.
👉 The billion-dollar investment firm behind the bulldozers has ‘referred’ its plan to be looked at under national nature laws, but the Environment Minister must make the call on whether a full assessment happens.