Article 1B03V The effects of Queensland's land clearing are devastating. NSW must not follow | Martin Taylor

The effects of Queensland's land clearing are devastating. NSW must not follow | Martin Taylor

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Martin Taylor
from Environment | The Guardian on (#1B03V)
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Eastern Australia is now considered a 'global deforestation front'. Is this massive loss of wildlife and increased pollution really what Australians want?

Somewhere today in Queensland, bulldozers are tearing down native bushland that was once protected.

After the weakening of tree clearing controls by the previous state government, more than 200,000 hectares of threatened species habitat was destroyed in the two years from July 2012 to July 2014.

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