Adani mine could snuff out black-throated finch’s last chances of survival

Development has long been given priority over the endangered bird’s welfare – and is set to again with the Carmichael coalmineVote now for the Australian bird of the yearThe black-throated finch is a refugee. For decades, progress has forced the small, rotund, patchwork finch to retreat to a few pockets of grassland in central and north Queensland. Now the largest colony will be forcibly moved from the best remaining habitat to make way for Adani’s Carmichael coalmine.Since it