Adani 'conservation area' for endangered finch sits on proposed Clive Palmer mine

Exclusive: environmental group calls plan to protect black-throated finch an 'elaborate hoax'

Adani has set aside a "conservation area" for the endangered black-throated finch at the same site earmarked for the massive Clive Palmer-backed Alpha North coalmine.

The environmental group Lock the Gate said the land-use conflict meant the Adani plan to protect the black-throated finch - which is one of two crucial management plans for the Carmichael mine yet to be approved by the Queensland government - amounted to an "elaborate hoax".