Land-clearing figures show 314,000 hectares felled in Great Barrier Reef catchment

More than 700,000 hectares cleared over two years, 40% of it in reef catchment, before stricter laws were passed

More than 700,000 hectares of forest and bushland were destroyed in Queensland in the past two years and 40% of it occurred in Great Barrier Reef catchments.

Environment groups have described the level of deforestation as an "environmental disaster" and called for federal intervention to end land-clearing in reef catchments and other nationally significant areas.