Wallabies, coal and a town called Dingo: the battle over a Queensland mine proposal

The bridled nail-tail wallaby was once thought to be extinct before it was rediscovered outside the central Queensland town of Dingo, near the site of a proposed coalmine. Photograph: Wayne Lawler/Australian Wildlife Conservancy

A bid to dig a coalmine on some of the last remaining habitat of an endangered wallaby near a central Queensland town called Dingo has been withdrawn.

But the mood among neighbouring landowners who opposed the Walton Coal proposal is far from celebratory.