Outback cattle property to expand national park

April 23, 2024 9:40 PM

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.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries (3 comments total)

Wow. When I see opportunities like this (usually lost) I always think, where's the disinterested billionaire for whom this is an impulse purchase? But this time the deal went through. Glad to hear it.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 1:00 PM on April 24 [1 favorite]

Good-oh!
posted by BlueHorse at 1:29 PM on April 24

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