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Australia’s miners throw money at ‘mini-monsters’ causing major headaches
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Mining giants including BHP, Rio Tinto, FMG and the Canadian Cameco have stumped up cash to unravel the mysteries of animals that, while among Australia’s state’s quietest and least visible, hold power over the shape and size of some of their biggest mines.
Increasing awareness of creatures living in the groundwater (stygofauna), or breathing the air in miniscule rock voids above the water’s surface (troglofauna) has big implications for mining.
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‘The distance from Perth to London’: How a gas company cleared the Kimberley
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Native bees attempting to fly across patches of cleared land in Western Australia’s Kimberley region would overheat and drop dead before ever reaching the other side, unable to find food or an area to rest.
Such is the scope of the clearing, scientists and local Indigenous people fear some areas could become open killing fields, where predators like feral cats and birds of prey feast on fragile native fauna, like the bilbies, which no longer have scrub to shelter in.
âThe distance from Perth to Londonâ: How a gas company cleared the Kimberley
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Native bees attempting to fly across patches of cleared land in Western Australiaâs Kimberley region would overheat and drop dead before ever reaching the other side, unable to find food or an area to rest.
Such is the scope of the clearing, scientists and local Indigenous people fear some areas could become open killing fields, where predators like feral cats and birds of prey feast on fragile native fauna, like the bilbies, which no longer have scrub to shelter in.