The Environment Minister, Frank Sartor, today will announce the first of the state's highly controversial ''BioBank'' sites with the government purchase of 80 hectares of grassland near Camden as a permanent conservation reserve.The offset purchase marks a new era in environmental management and is the first step in a plan to secure some of the surviving pockets of building land in Western Sydney for the construction of 180,000 houses in 40 years. The $1.7 million paid for the Camden reserve, funded through a developer levy, will be used to manage the site for conservation
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