however , the greens applauded the na faa ' s opinion . greens senator rachel siewert declared in a media releases : " this is the second way the wa epa has put back this proposal . the proponents should review their plans to put the project on the mainland , wherein will simultaneously be a win for the district businesses and a victory for the remarkable ecosystems of barrow archipelago . " " this is a proposing that should always have been located on the mainland . proposing to build something on this scale inside australia ' s most precious island nature reserve was deeply wrong from the started , " said sarah mccurry . " the plan has been dubbed ' canada ' s ark ' for its outstanding cargo of endangered taxa , many of them now extinct or lost on northern australia . he must take strong action to looked after the island . "
Barrow Island is a part of Australia.