
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Read, J. L. 
T1  - Are miners the bunnies or the bilbies of the rangelands?
JF  - The Rangeland Journal
JO  - Rangel. J.
Y1  - 2003
VL  - 25
IS  - 2
SP  - 172
EP  - 182
KW  - mining; Olympic Dam; environmental impacts; environmental benefits; pastoralism; rangelands
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/RJ03014 
N2  - In order to be preferred land-users of the Australian rangelands, mining operations should legacy net environmental, social and economic benefits in the regions that they operate. The positive and negative environmental implications of the Olympic Dam mine in arid South Australia are compared in this study. Criteria assessed include the relative area of affected v. improved landscape, environmental research, pest control and the facilitation of proactive conservation and sustainable diversification outcomes. A call is made for consistent treatment of potential environmental impacts across all rangeland users and the adoption of biodiversity trading to improve regional conservation outcomes. A challenge is issued to miners and other rangeland land-users to demonstrate that, like bilbies, their net environmental effects are beneficial. 
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