Bushland marked as environmental offset for new Sydney airport bulldozed for car park
by Lisa Cox from on (#5YRJW)
The heritage listed and critically endangered Cumberland plain woodland was cleared for a new defence department facility
An area of heritage-listed bushland that formed part of the environmental offset for the western Sydney airport has been bulldozed for a car park at a new defence facility.
The clearing was revealed in an independent audit of the federal government's progress in delivering the offsets required to compensate for the destruction of endangered habitat for the new travel hub in Badgerys Creek.
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