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Auvergne station
The NT Pastoral Land Board, under powers given to it by the NT government, last year permitted multinational corporation Clean Agriculture and International Tourism to clear more than 920 hectares at Auvergne Station in the stunning Victoria River region.
On behalf of our client, the Environment Centre NT, we’re taking the NT government to court to challenge the corporation’s plans to clear this ecologically important savanna and use part of it to grow cotton.
Auvergne Station stretches across 61,000ha, and is home to an array of incredible, but already vulnerable, animals and plants.
Legune Station
On 19 August 2022, the Northern Territory pastoral land board granted a permit to AAM Investment Group (AAMIG) to clear 1009.45 hectares of savanna and construct levees and irrigation channels at to farm sorghum, corn and grass. The company’s land clearing application also contained soil testing for cotton.
The whole area proposed for land clearing falls within the Legune coastal floodplain site of international conservation significance. It contains complex wetland habitats that are home to significant populations of threatened and migratory shorebirds.
EJA lawyers are keeping a close eye on plans bulldoze savanna at Legune Station, Keep Plains, Scott Creek and other culturally significant and ecologically important places in the NT.
Scott Creek
Argentinian corporation, Cross Pacific Investments plans to raze more than 4,900 hectares of savanna at Scott Creek to farm cotton and other crops.
The NT Pastoral Land Board has already stamped permits to bulldoze 2328 hectares, while another permit for 1955 hectares awaits decision (see the permits here and here).
Experts are concerned razing the savannah here will cause huge cumulative impacts on local and regional biodiversity and threatened species. The land clearing also risks significant sedimentation and run-off into important river systems, as well as chemical run-off into the Tindall Aquifier.
EJA lawyers are keeping a close eye on plans bulldoze savanna at Legune Station, Keep Plains, Scott Creek and other culturally significant and ecologically important places in the NT.
Keep Plains
In 2022, Keep Plains became the largest land release for agriculture in the Territory as the massive corporation AAM Investment Group took it over and began bulldozing tracks, drilling bores and locking gates.
The Muriuwung-Nyawam Nyawam, Miriuwung-Bindjen, Gajerrong-Gurrbijm, Gajerrong-Djarrdjarrany, Gajerrong-Djandumi, and Gajerrong-Wadanybang groups have recognised native title rights over Keep Plains.
AAM has started introducing cattle to areas that had been under special management to conserve the precious habitat earmarked to become Keep River National Park.
AAM is degrading the savanna ecosystem within Keep Plains. Their operations are hardening the ground and impacting natural water flows.
EJA lawyers are keeping a close eye on plans bulldoze savanna at Legune Station, Keep Plains, Scott Creek and other culturally significant and ecologically important places in the NT.