Save The Long Paddock!

Scientists and conservationists say vital wildlife corridors will be lost forever if state governments sell off a network of stock routes in Queensland and NSW.

"A review has recommended to the (NSW) government that travelling stock routes should be ceded back to the Department of Lands unless the local boards can provide a business case for their retention, which means they have to be profitable.
"This means the Department of Lands can do whatever they see fit with their routes, they can lease them or sell them or do whatever they like."
In 1975, the stock routes covered 2.3 million hectares but the area had shrunk to about 600,000 hectares in 2001, with much of the land bought up by landowners of adjoining properties.
The government would now probably look at the routes individually, not as part of a network, she said.
"The drovers and environmentalists agree that the network should stay connected and not as bits and pieces of land that all have different values with different developments on them," she said.

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