Outback cattle property to expand national park
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Outback cattle property to expand national park after environmentally significant government purchase. An anonymous $21 million ($13.68 million US) donation has helped with the purchase of the 352,589-hectare (871,266 acre) Vergemont Station near Longreach to create a 1.5 million-hectare (3,706,580 acre) protected corridor in outback Queensland.
When I see opportunities like this (usually lost) I always think, where's the disinterested billionaire for whom this is an impulse purchase?
Exactly. If I had billions of dollars, at least half of it would go towards buying up wilderness or restoring former wilderness, especially including buying up grazing land and trying to restore uninterrupted expanses for all sorts of migratory things. Don't let people in other than for research or to patrol for poachers and other idiots. Of course, then I would go mad and wander out into the bush and imagine myself Dingo King or something, and then I would start trapping and eating intruders, because what good is being a billionaire if you can't become a mad cannibal billionaire with a taste for poached poacher?
posted by pracowity at 6:17 AM on April 25
Exactly. If I had billions of dollars, at least half of it would go towards buying up wilderness or restoring former wilderness, especially including buying up grazing land and trying to restore uninterrupted expanses for all sorts of migratory things. Don't let people in other than for research or to patrol for poachers and other idiots. Of course, then I would go mad and wander out into the bush and imagine myself Dingo King or something, and then I would start trapping and eating intruders, because what good is being a billionaire if you can't become a mad cannibal billionaire with a taste for poached poacher?
posted by pracowity at 6:17 AM on April 25
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