The mining has been detrimental to the 200-year-old hallowed out trees that provide nesting areas for birdlife such as the Cape York Peninsula’s palm cockatoo.īryan worries that we may be losing more wildlife than we’re aware even exists. Land clearing for bauxite mines remains a large problem for other native wildlife as well. “This type of bauxite mining activity can have hidden ecological impacts on these types of burrowing animals,” he says.
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This distinguishing difference means that the split nasal feature evolved after the Northern Territory snakes split from their common ancestor.īryan tells Australian Geographic that, while discovering a new species is exciting, he was instantly concerned for its safety as its only known habitat is being destroyed by mining. It is believed that one continuous monsoonal habitat used to exist covering the area of WA, NT and Cape York, but this has now been split into three different habitats.Īfter the split each species became isolated and continued on their own evolutionary trajectory.įor this reason, Bryan and his team predict there could be more bandy-bandy snakes further down the cape.īryan explained that this particular species of bandy-bandy snake differs from the bandy-bandy snakes in the Northern Territory and Western Australia as it has internasal scales.
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“I felt a combination of being amused, confused and excited because I could tell that the discovery was something very unusual,” he said.