Land-clearing in Queensland for beef
Amazon déjà vu
"[The] freshly bulldozed native forests and bushland are likely to be home of dozens of threatened species, including the koala, the greater glider and the red goshawk."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-30/wilderness-society-agforce-clash-over-land-learing/105469832
#biodiversity #EPBCAct #meat #LandClearing
NSW "cowboys continue to knock down huge swathes of healthy forests."
"ACF says satellite evidence shows mass native habitat destruction by farmers."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-06-21/acf-citizen-scientists-satellite-images-of-land-clearing/105436794
#biodiversity #LandClearing #ThreatenedSpecies #beef #meat #cattle #extractivism #EPBCAct #CitizenScientist #degradation #NSW
Conservation group compiles 'shocking' evidence of mass habitat loss
By Liana Boss, Lara Webster, and Tim Fernandez
Investigations are under way into satellite images the Australian Conservation Foundation says are proof farmers across Australia have illegally cleared 900 square kilometres of native habitat in five years.
#LandClearing #EnvironmentalManagement #Conservation #Forests #EnvironmentalPolicy #LandManagement #LianaBoss #LaraWebster # #TimFernandez
Fixing outdated environmental laws (the EPBC Act)
Destruction as usual ?
“Australians are tired of the bush being bulldozed and burnt and elected a government that will act on nature and on climate." They expect "sweeping changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) in the next 18 months."
"The past failures, combined with the approval of major fossil fuel projects and the rushed passage of laws to protect Tasmania’s salmon industry, have environmentalists worried about Labor’s second term."
"Environmental organisations also want an end to the “climate blindness” of Australia’s environmental laws, an end to loopholes such as the effective exemption granted to logging under regional forest agreements, and a clearer focus on what’s needed for the recovery of threatened species."
"Corporate Australia needed to “leave its bludgeons at the door” as the process started afresh."
"Ending habitat loss was the “bottom line outcome”, ...meaning that native forest logging and agricultural land clearing must be addressed in some form."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/14/environmentalists-worry-as-labor-seeks-consensus-on-federal-nature-laws-epbc-act-epa
#EPBCAct #BiodiversityCrisis #biodiversity #ClimateBreakdown #GHG #FastTrackApprovals #extractivism #destruction #SamuelReview #LoggingIndustry #landclearing #FossilFuels #CorporateAustralia
Defence #Housing Australia fined for unlawful #LandClearing the endangered Gouldian Finches' habitat
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-26/defence-housing-australia-fined-unlawful-land-clearing-lee-point/105335992
#Darwin #Lee#Point #EndangeredSpecies #EndangeredHabitats #birds #crime
Bulldozing the habitat of endangered species in NSW
"The Australian Conservation Foundation is alleging thousands of hectares of endangered species habitat has been illegally cleared in south-west New South Wales between 2021 and 2025."
"Experts say land clearing rates are unlikely to be reduced without education and effective enforcement..A lot more land is being cleared than grown back or restored which is unusual for a wealthy, developed country like ours."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-04/mallee-land-clearing-conservation-foundation-endangered-species/105098584
#biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #NSW #LandClearing #farmers #landholders #crime #wildlife #birds #ClimateBreakdown #EPBCAct #regulation #enforcement #CostofDoingBusiness #extractivism
Action on illegal deforestation and land clearing - somewhere
A Brazilian judge has ordered the seizure of private lands where forests have been illegally razed.
"A justice on the Brazilian Supreme Court has directed the government to seize private lands where forests have been illegally razed." >>
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/brazil-judge-deforestation-land-seizure
#deforestation #LandClearing #crimes #governance #biodiversity #Australia #NativeForests
The family farm - years of 'bashing and burning'
"I bashed the trees down and burnt everything … I was a bash and burner."
"It took about 200 years to transform a once wild island into an agricultural powerhouse,
farmers raised to conquer the land; slashing native vegetation to make way for agriculture.Much of King Island's native vegetation has been cleared for farmland."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/king-island-environmental-destruction-farmer-conservationist/104743516
#extinction #farming #FamilyFarm #Australia #LandClearing #culture #SettlerSociety #machinery #SlashandBurn #deforestation #meat #biodiversity
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Quintessentially Australian:
"Bulldozers made quick work of the Murray Darling Basin landscape."
"Bulldozers flattened trees and grasses which were then burned"
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/satellite-photos-reveal-disturbing-change-to-iconic-aussie-landscape-065657701.html
#biodiversity #EPBCAct #nature #conservation #LandClearing #MurrayDarlingBasin #agribusinesses #PropertyDevelopers #governance #destruction #NSW #Australia #climate #incineration
"Digging dams in sensitive environments"
"A commercial farming company (Green Leaf Australia Group) and one of its directors have together been fined close to $300,000, for constructing and using dams without approval and impacting a "nationally significant" freshwater wetland in northern New South Wales."
"...The court found that some of the offences involved removing vegetation and clearing land, which caused harm to the environment, including nationally significant freshwater wetlands listed as endangered ecological communities.
"It's not just the environmental harm but also the Aboriginal cultural harm that's occurred though this offending, which Magistrate Scott Nash described as 'reckless and motivated for financial gain,'" Ms Stockley said."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-05/300k-fine-for-green-leaf-farming-company-and-director-over-dam/105006882
#wetlands #ecosystems #water #biodiversity #Ramsar #conservation #NSW #MidNorthCoast #ClybuccaAboriginalArea #harm #landclearing #irrigation #FinancialGain #extractivism
'Last chance to see' tourism: See rare or endangered species before they disappear
Bird-tracking apps turning sightings into stampedes
Chasing online alerts with a lot of fossil fuel.
"Almost one in six Australian birds are threatened with extinction."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-15/tourism-industry-twitchers-birdwatching/104919868
#birds #birdwatching #twitchers #overtourism #LoggingImpacts #landclearing #extinction #biodiversity #conservation #TheDrive #SUVs #Fossilfuels #cats #pets
Australian water quality trends over two decades show deterioration in the Great Barrier Reef region and recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin
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Guo, D., Zhang, Q., Minaudo, C. et al. Australian water quality trends over two decades show deterioration in the Great Barrier Reef region and recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin. Commun Earth Environ 6, 67 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02044-3
#water #pollution #rivers #MDB #GBR #reef #GreatBarrierReef #phosphorus #LandClearing #degradation
Confronting devastating destruction
"Since Europeans arrived in Australia, much of the country has become severely degraded."
"Around 40% of our forests and 99% of grasslands have been cut down and cleared, and much of what remains is under threat. Thousands of ecological communities, plants and animal species are threatened with extinction."
"Australia remains a global logging and deforestation hotspot. We have the world’s worst record for mammal extinctions and lead the world in arresting climate and environment protesters. To top it off, a recent study estimated more than 9,000 native Australian animals, mostly invertebrates, have gone extinct since European arrival. That’s between one and three species every week."
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https://theconversation.com/in-2025-lets-make-it-game-on-not-game-over-for-our-precious-natural-world-245761
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Discovery on satellite image halts Aussie construction site amid claims of illegal #landclearing #deforestation https://au.news.yahoo.com/discovery-on-satellite-image-halts-aussie-construction-site-amid-claims-of-illegal-land-clearing-234753705.html
'Farming'
"NSW farmer fined record $1m for wiping out critical koala habitat for private airstrip larger than Sydney airport. Ronald Greentree and his company Auen Grain cleared 1,262 hectares of land home to 30 threatened species, NSW government says."
"The 1,262 hectares (3,120 acres) of native vegetation cleared included critical habitat for 30 threatened species, including the koala and Glossy Black Cockatoo, to make way for a private airstrip, crops and cattle yards...Greentree has a history of destroying biodiversity."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/29/nsw-farmer-fined-land-clearning-koala-habitat
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The Nature Positive deal: “The barbarians flexed their muscles and that was that.”
"Environment minister agreed detail with Greens but the PM intervened after lobbying from WA premier and miners. But sadly, until now, we have not been able to land an agreement, because it seems the miners and the loggers in this place have more influence than the environment minister, and that’s a real shame...The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, which Plibersek’s bill would have amended, would have helped repair “a completely broken system”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/29/tanya-plibersek-deal-on-nature-laws-was-overruled-by-anthony-albanese
#Biodiversity #governance #NaturePositive #NatureNegative #NSWLogging #loggingIndustry #mining #deforestation #landclearing #extractivism #environment #laws #Australia #law
Approximately 39.3 million hectares (30.4% or almost one third) of Australia’s Eucalypt Woodlands have been destroyed since European settlement, mostly in the southern parts of Australia.
Much of the 89.8 million hectares of Eucalypt Woodland that remain have been degraded by high grazing pressure, inappropriate fire regimes and weeds. These threats all contribute to the loss of large, old trees, and can prevent younger trees from becoming large and old enough to form hollows.
Protection of the remaining areas of Eucalypt Woodland will allow the animals on this poster (and many other animal species that use hollows in this habitat type) to survive and thrive into the future.
'Tree hollows are animal homes’ is a series of designs inspired by the relationship between the many Australian animal species that use hollows and the trees that provide them.
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Thanks to Prof Don Butler for providing the vegetation map and data.
Read more about this design here https://www.paperbarkwriter.com/tree-hollows-are-animal-homes-3-eucalypt-woodland-south-eastern-australia/
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Locals
"Conviction of a Dundurrabin
landholder in Coffs Harbour Local Court on 30 August, for damaging vegetation and unlawfully clearing more than two hectares of Chaelundi State Conservation Area, northwest of Dorrigo.The Court heard that between January and November 2021, the landholder unlawfully cleared vegetation with a bulldozer, felled mature trees, and extended a fence line into Chaelundi State Conservation Area to increase his grazing area." >>
https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/landholders-urged-to-respect-neighbouring-conservation-areas
Boambee Headland
to remove both a picnic table and bench. “The unauthorised repositioning of the table setting – and the laying of some 20 square metres of mulch and gravel at the cliff site – led to environmental damage in an Endangered Ecological Community of Themeda grassland.” >>
https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/surfers-in-wrangle-with-council-over-bench-move
The Nambucca Valley Conservation Association
has lodged an objection to scheduled logging in Little Newry State Forest (SF), claiming it is home to key koala habitat and that planning requirements have not been fulfilled.>>
https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/forest-campaigners-rally-for-little-newry-ahead-of-logging-start-date
#Conservation #NPs #LandClearing #filibusterism #Nambucca #biodiversity #MidNorthCoast #NSWLogging #LittleNewry #koalas #biodiversity
