Four decades after the battle for the Franklin Dam, a contest between nature and industry is underway in the high tropical forests of Far North Queensland that is equally as pivotal.
If the battle to save Chalumbin tropical forests from the bulldozers is lost, a rapacious, environmentally-destructive industry will have open slather to rip the heart out of other areas of unique natural beauty from Cape York to Tasmania.
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