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Plantation operator fined $141,000 for disturbing actions caught on satellite images of property: 'It's quite devastating'

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Blue Whale Farm Plantation was fined $ 141,000 for clearing 16 hectares of land in Western Australia .

Plantation cut down trees and native plants, including the endangered round-leaf honeysuckle, to develop the area and create firebreaks.

Magistrate Anthony Sullivan of Bunbury Magistrates Court said the punishment was to deter other companies from doing the same thing.