Stakes raised for black-throated finch's largest remaining habitat on Adani mine site

Bird whose fate forms a key plank of federal court challenge to approval of the Carmichael mine in Queensland was declared extinct in NSW last week

The demise of the black-throated finch in New South Wales has added urgency to the need to protect the bird's largest remaining habitat on the site of Adani's proposed Queensland mine, conservationists have said.

The finch - whose fate forms a key plank of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF)'s federal court challenge to commonwealth environmental approval of the Carmichael mine - was declared extinct by the NSW government last Friday.