Death by a thousand cuts: the familiar patterns behind Australia's land-clearing crisis
by Michael Slezak from Environment | The Guardian on (#3J6RD)
The land-clearing crisis has been hastened by individual decisions, but it's supported by a network of power brokers, lawmakers and enforcement agencies
The broadscale denuding of the unique Australian landscape is the result of thousands of landholders making a tapestry of individual decisions.
Over the past few years, millions of hectares of land has been cleared of native vegetation, exacerbating climate change, the decline of threatened species and the health of the Great Barrier Reef.
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