The Arid Lands Environment Centre condemns Minister Joshua Burgoyne's catastrophic buffel grass decision that caves to industry lobbying and puts his own community at risk, by continuing to permit the sale, trade and planting of buffel grass across the Northern Territory’s pastoral leases.

Buffel grass does not recognise fence lines and artificial boundaries. It is a highly invasive weed that devastates arid environments and communities across Australia and the world.

The life and colour of the arid lands is suffocating in buffel grass before it all goes up in flames.