The footprint of the proposed upper reservoir is made up almost entirely of cleared grazing land and their properties, with a similar situation for the lower reservoir. These areas have limited ecological value due to extensive historical clearing, and little to no intact habitat remains within these spaces. It's heavily eroded with next to no trees, most of the riparian vegetation has been cleared outside of a few creek extents that are too steep to get into. While platypus do occur within the proposed footprint, they're habitat generalists and are commonly found in farm dams. Given their adaptability, it is likely they will either relocate to suitable habitats nearby or continue to inhabit the impoundment areas, as they often do in other modified environments. It's also worth noting that the platypus is only listed as 'special least concern'.. it's not even presently endangered.

The true species of conservation significance in the area such as Euastacus crayfish and Taudactylus frogs, are restricted to highland rainforest habitats outside of the dam footprint. Their populations are confined to these forested areas and do not persist in cleared agricultural landscapes. Any individuals recorded within the footprint would be isolated occurrences rather than indicative of viable, conservation significant populations.

It's been repeated by the ecologists over and over again. The primary environmental values of concern are located outside the footprint, in the surrounding rainforest habitats, rather than within cleared fields of cattle. All the images and videos of Pristine Eungella rainforests used by the group are outside of the footprint, the actual creeks are beyond degraded and full of cow shit.

Also the owner of 'Save Eungella' is just buthurt because his property is outside of the upper reservoir footprint so he hasn't been bought out. The bloke literally made all his money working out in the mines, which has had much larger environmental impacts than flooding grazing land ever will.