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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Lisa Cox

Bushland marked as environmental offset for new Sydney airport bulldozed for car park

Runway at the western Sydney airport
The cleared bushland was marked as an offset to compensate for the destruction of endangered bushland in building the western Sydney airport (pictured). Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

An area of heritage-listed bushland that formed part of the environmental offset for the western Sydney airport has been bulldozed for a car park at a new defence facility.

The clearing was revealed in an independent audit of the federal government’s progress in delivering the offsets required to compensate for the destruction of endangered habitat for the new travel hub in Badgerys Creek.

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