Keep Mt Fox Wild

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Keep Mt Fox Wild We are a small community in north Queensland. Our community sits atop the incredibly biodiverse Seaview Range mountains, directly west of Ingham.

We will not allow this place of international significance be turned into an energy-industrial estate.

18/10/2026

🎥 Can you spare just 2 minutes and 14 seconds?

Watch Dr Michael Seebeck's short video on Gawara Baya (Upper Burdekin) Wind "Farm". His natural storytelling and brilliant footage will show you, better than words ever could, why this project must not proceed - and why this landscape is so worth fighting for.

👉 WATCH: "This cannot be replaced"

🚗 Then, how about a scenic drive?

Come join our important community gathering at Mt Fox Campgrounds - Saturday 24 October, as we stand together to fight for the Mt Fox community and biodiversity.

🌄 Stay for the weekend! Bring your caravan or pitch a tent and make a proper stay of it - camping right there near these ridgelines is the best reminder of exactly what we're fighting to protect. Refreshments provided for the event.

📞 Questions about getting there or where to set up? Text Kim on 0414 883 357 — please leave a message if she can't answer, as she'll be at work.

The drive out there is truly spectacular - and that's exactly how we want it to stay. 💚

We look forward to seeing you there. Thank you for standing with our community.

🚨 URGENT RALLY: STOP THE BULL DOZERS NOW!- GAWARA BAYA WIND 'FARM' 🚨Once it's gone, it's gone forever.There is a calling...
18/10/2026

🚨 URGENT RALLY: STOP THE BULL DOZERS NOW!
- GAWARA BAYA WIND 'FARM' 🚨
Once it's gone, it's gone forever.

There is a calling for an immediate Stop Work Order on the Gawara Baya Wind 'Farm' (formerly Upper Burdekin Wind Farm), Mt Fox, North Queensland, before irreversible damage begins on one of the last intact, high-altitude biodiversity refugia left in North Queensland.
What's at stake
68 wind turbines and associated roads, hardstands and transmission lines are slated to blast and carve through - 29,000 hectares of untouched habitat - while proponents tout only a cattle farm, and "640 ha of clearing." But wildlife needs intact biodiversity to survive. When connectivity is severed across a landscape, the damage is the entire site, not just what's bulldozed. Species survive through connected habitat. Sever the links, and you lose the ecosystem.

What the Federal approval (EPBC 2021/9066) permits clearing of:
605 ha Sharman's Rock Wallaby habitat
581 ha Northern Greater Glider habitat — including 331 ha of denning habitat
616 ha Red Goshawk habitat — including 331 ha of breeding habitat
614 ha Koala habitat
581 ha Northern Masked Owl habitat
614 ha each: Grey-headed and Spectacled Flying-fox habitat
546 ha Greater Large-eared Horseshoe Bat habitat
545 ha Bare-rumped Sheathtail Bat habitat
614 ha each: White-throated Needletail and Fork-tailed Swift habitat
0 ha tolerance for the Magnificent Brood Frog — a frog found nowhere else on Earth
The process failed us
328 public submissions. Zero in support.
128 Federal conditions imposed - a clear admission of the scale of harm.
Approval binds this land until 2094, with revegetation obligations extending to 2089 - asking future generations to spend decades cleaning up a mess this one project creates.
Proponents frame this as a fraction of the landholding, but fragmentation breaks connectivity across the whole 29,000 ha project site and beyond.
Why it matters
This is an ancient ecosystem that took millions of years to evolve. It cannot be offset, replanted on schedule, or engineered back. Turbines and transmission can go elsewhere - extinct species and shattered ecosystems cannot.

Future generations should inherit our best landscapes, not our regrets.

📷 Details of date, time and location Sat. 24th Oct. 2026 - 1.00 p.m. - Mt Fox Camp Grounds,

Bring a friend. Speak for those who can't.

17/10/2026

Random searches under wind towers in Queensland reveal multiple bird and bat mortalities.

This is a little red flying fox with a broken spine after colliding with a wind turbine at Kaban Wind Farm in North Queensland.

A bat carer was called to assess the bat's condition, and it was ultimately euthanised.

15/10/2026

URGENT: We urgently call on Copenhagen Infrastructure & Partners to Walk Away From Gawara Baya Wind zone before it is too late!
(This video uses real footage of the planned Gawara Baya site is Not AI)

The Gawara Baya project will bulldoze, blast and fragment 29,000 hectares of ancient habitat in the Mt Fox / Upper Burdekin region - a rare, high-altitude landscape of outstanding biodiversity value that has remained untouched.
The destruction will be irreversible. Despite the proponent's claims, this project cannot deliver a "net biodiversity gain" - no offset or restoration program can replace what will be lost forever.

We urge you not to proceed with this unethical development. Once this landscape is gone, it is gone for good.

Please join us on Saturday, 24 October, to rally against the destruction of cultural values and rich biodiversity of the...
14/10/2026

Please join us on Saturday, 24 October, to rally against the destruction of cultural values and rich biodiversity of the Seaview Ranges of the Mt. Fox region.

We will stop the Gawara Baya Wind Farm, its network of haulage roads, BESS batteries, substations, vast transmission networks, and 68 wind towers as high as Sydney's Centrepoint Tower, from carving through our sacred forests.

12/10/2026

Please watch our new film clip all the way through.

Let's get it into the Top 10!

Don't put a ceiling on our big blue sky. Keep Mt Fox Wild!

First day, first casualty.Found on the ground, hit by a truck heading to the proposed Gawara Baya Wind Farm construction...
12/10/2026

First day, first casualty.

Found on the ground, hit by a truck heading to the proposed Gawara Baya Wind Farm construction site.

Luckily, it wasn’t too badly injured. Photos courtesy of our local wildlife carer.

11/10/2026

Biodiversity v Industrial wind turbines - Project size 29,000 ha

Gawara Baya (Upper Burdekin) Wind Farm, Mt Fox, QLD: 68 wind turbines on one of North Queensland's last intact high-altitude biodiversity refugia.

Understanding biodiversity connectivity is essential to grasping the true cumulative footprint. A species survives through connected habitat - not fragments. When turbines, roads and transmission lines carve up and blast through intact, untouched biodiversity, the impact is the entire site, not just what's bulldozed.

Federal approval (EPBC 2021/9066) permits this clearing:

• 605.3 ha Sharman's Rock Wallaby Habitat
• 581 ha Greater Glider (northern) (331 ha DENNING)
• 581 ha Masked Owl (northern) Habitat
• 614 ha Koala habitat
• 616 ha Red Goshawk (331 ha BREEDING)
• 614 ha Grey-headed Flying-Fox
• 614 ha Spectacled Flying-Fox
• 546 ha Greater Large-eared Horseshoe Bat
• 545 ha Bare-rumped Sheathtail Bat
• 614 ha White-throated Needletail
• 614 ha Fork-tailed Swift
• 0 ha Magnificent Brood Frog (zero tolerance)

Landholding is about 52,300 ha. Project size 29,000 - Proponents cite "640 ha clearing” but fragmentation breaks connectivity across the entire landholding.

328 submissions. Zero in support. 128 Federal conditions.

Approval runs to 2094. Ancient ecosystem → industrial energy zone. Can't offset what took millions of years to evolve.

Share the true scale.

📋 Sources: All 128 conditions of approval on the EPBC Act Public Portal: https://epbcpublicportal.environment.gov.au/all-notices/project-decision?id=5eda7d25-1da2-ef11-8a69-0022481295e6

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