In 2017, bulldozers cleared Western Australian wetlands for a highway that was cancelled; nine years later, restoration has returned over 200,000 plants and recorded 97 animal species across 18 hectares
Nearly a decade after a controversial highway project damaged sensitive bushland in Western Australia, a long-running rehabilitation effort is showing encouraging signs of ecological recovery, although restoring the landscape to its former condition remains a distant goal. According to a report by ABC News journalist Lauren Smith, a recent survey of the former Roe 8…