IndiaAIFounders — ‘Hanging on by a thread’: 11th hour decision to protect endangered birds from SA space project plans welcomed

‘Hanging on by a thread’: 11th hour decision to protect endangered birds from SA space project plans welcomed

September 24, 2026 at 03:00 AM

The Eyre peninsula site is ‘precious and important’ habitats for southern emu-wren and home to 80% of the mallee whipbird population

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Conservation groups have welcomed an 11th-hour decision to protect “precious and important habitat” on South Australia’s Eyre peninsula from plans for a rocket launching facility.

The Whalers Way “orbital launch complex”, which could see as many as 42 rockets a year take off from conservation land, had already been approved under federal and state planning and environment laws.

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