Help us stop Upper Burdekin Gawara Baya wind farm North QLD

A thriving population of Endangered Northern Koalas was discovered to inhabit the site of the approved Upper Burdekin/ Gawara Baya wind farm. This project will result in over 600 hectares of their habitat being destroyed for 69 wind turbines.

We are legally appealing the approval of the Upper Burdekin / Gawara Baya wind farm and we need your support. We are a small, grassroots charity and receive little support. Give knowing you are helping us to help stop this development and save precious Koala lives.

Destroying Koala homes, where Koalas are known to thrive, is NOT climate action!

Endangered Koalas need us to be their voice and their habitat is critical to their survival. Support us in our bid to protect their lives and their habitat.

BACKSTORY

On the 18th June 2024 Windlab’s Upper Burdekin / Gawara Baya wind farm was approved by Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.

We are extremely distressed at this development. After 2 years of community campaigning against the wind farm proposal, it’s approval sets a disturbing precedent for projects that can ‘get over line’.

The site of the Upper Burdekin wind farm is home to a remarkable array of threatened species: the Koala, the Greater Glider, the Sharman’s Rock Wallaby, the Masked Owl, the Magnificent Brood Frog, the Grey-Headed Flying Fox, the Spectacled Flying Fox, the Greater Large-Eared Horse Shoe Bat, the list goes on.

Remarkably, a thriving population of Northern Koalas was discovered here by ecologists contracted to survey the wind farm site! But this discovery has not stopped this appalling project.

Even our rarest raptor, the critically endangered Red Goshawk, about so which so little is known, has been seen here.

Our Northern Koalas, our Red Goshawks and all the threatened species living peacefully on the Upper Burdekin / Gawara Baya wind farm site need us to stand up! Please give to help us stop this.

A shocking amount of critical habitat will be destroyed for this industrial scale wind farm. This off the charts in an extinction crisis! Remember that 1 hectare (ha) represents around 1.5 soccer fields. We will lose up to:

· 605.3 ha of Sharman’s Rock Wallaby habitat

· 581 ha of Greater Glider habitat, 331 ha of denning habitat and 250 ha of foraging habitat

· 581 ha of Masked Owlhabitat

· 614 ha of Koala habitat

· 616 ha of Red Goshawk habitat, including 331 ha of breeding habitat and 285 ha of foraging habitat

· 614 ha of Grey-headed Flying-Fox foraging habitat

· 614 ha of Spectacled Flying-Fox foraging habitat

· 546 ha of Greater Large-eared Horseshoe Bat roosting habitat

· 545 ha of Bare-rumped Sheathtail Bat habitat

· 614 ha of White-throated Needletail habitat

· 614 ha of Fork-tailed Swift habitat

This is appalling!

We urgently need your help to build a fighting fund to stop this.

Please, help us legally challenge this decision.

Get onboard the Rainforest Reserves Campaign to stop this ecocidal wind farm and help protect the threatened species we hold so dear. Donate knowing you are doing something to stop this. You are helping us to stop extinctions.

Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me.

Sincerely,

Carolyn Emms

President of Rainforest Reserves Australia