Irwin battles against mining in conservation area

Discovery News reports that Terri Irwin, widow of famed "crocodile hunter" Steve Irwin, is trying to stop mining in the Australian conservation area named after her late husband:

"Terri Irwin said the 135,000-hectare (333,450-acre) Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve on Cape York Peninsula in Australia's far northeast was home to a number of vulnerable species and needed to be protected.

The lease to the site, purchased by an Irwin family company with the help of the Australian government in 2006 and renamed in tribute to the "Croc Hunter", is the subject of an application from a mining company to mine 50 million tonnes of bauxite, she said."

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