NSW buys 60,000 hectares of farmland near Broken Hill for outback nature reserve

Purchase of Langidoon and Metford sheep stations is the second-biggest national parks land procurement in NSW in the last decade

The New South Wales government has purchased more than 60,000 hectares of farmland near Broken Hill for an outback nature reserve, home to at least 14 threatened species.

In an effort to expand conservation efforts in the traditionally underrepresented far west of the state, on Monday NSW environment minister Matt Kean announced the government had finalised the purchase of the neighbouring Langidoon and Metford sheep stations.