THE mining boom is encroaching on some of the last publicly owned wilderness areas in the state, according to a new report from the Nature Conservation Council of NSW.
The state's peak environment body, representing 100 green groups, said the debate around mining on farmland has obscured the fact that some of the state's biggest planned coal and coal seam gas operations will go ahead in state forests and some of the last vestiges of wild land in NSW.
The report, being released today, highlights seven wilderness areas that are about to feel the impact of mining, including Leard State Forest north of Tamworth, the Gardens of Stone in the western Blue Mountains and the bird sanctuary in the Hunter Valley's Warkworth Sands Woodland.
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