Land clearing: two million hectares of Queensland forest destroyed in five years, new analysis shows

Research finds almost all land cleared in the state between 2016 and 2021 in areas where threatened species habitat likely to occur'

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More than 2m hectares (4.94m acres) of bushland in Queensland that included large swathes of possible koala habitat has been cleared over a five-year period, new analysis shows.

The research, commissioned by Greenpeace and conducted by University of Queensland academic Martin Taylor, found almost all land clearing that occurred in the state between 2016 and 2021 was in areas where threatened species habitat was likely to occur".

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