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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.
Woodside and the State Government chose to ignore all these reports, and have taken no further action to ensure this protected species is indeed protected within their proposal to build a gas hub at James Price Point.
"We hear Woodside and the Government talking up this proposal as 'world's best practice' -- but any sensible person can see that this company and the government are determined to look the other way when it comes to protecting the environment here."
"Amateur naturalists with a motion-sensor camera found direct evidence of this species in one month that Woodside haven't found in four years. It's time they worked a lot harder to meet their environmental obligations."
"Goolarabooloo insist that the State and Federal governments step in to immediately stop Woodside landclearing while they work out how to protect this species as their state and federal laws say they must," Joseph Roe concluded.
The last time a live bilby was positively identified on the Dampier Peninsula was in 1991.