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

Conservation foundation alleges illegal land clearing on NSW properties
By Timu King

The Australian Conservation Foundation says vulnerable species like the malleefowl and pink cockatoo are suffering a "death by a thousand cuts" due to land clearing.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-04/mallee-land-clearing-conservation-foundation-endangered-species/105098584

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

'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
#NSW #LandClearing #farming #cattle #ThreatendSpecies #koalas #harm #crime #biodiversity #extinction makers

Who can clear the most land (biodiversity) for beef Australia or Brazil

"US demand for Aussie beef soars 75 per cent, as drought leaves US herd at lowest level since 1950s.. What's happening, is the United States is importing beef from other nations like Brazil, which is undermining the value of Australian beef."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-27/beef-trade-with-china-slow-but-united-states-buying-big/104136078

"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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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/06/queensland-land-clearing-deforestation-data-analysis
#Meat #beef #Australia #LandClearing #Amazon #climate #biodiversity

'Repair' much of the past two centuries of degradation
Australia’s environment could be fixed and threatened species saved for just 0.3% of GDP

The "Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists estimates $7.3bn a year for 30 years could avoid most extinctions, repair soils and restore rivers."

"Australia’s spectacular and unique landscapes and beloved wildlife were a drawcard for domestic and international tourists alike, bringing billions of dollars into the Australian economy every year ... Many Australians did not realise that “all of this is genuinely under threat”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/australia-environment-endangered-species-fixed-gdp
#biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis #ExtinctionCrisis #degradation #NatureCrisis #conservation #repair #environmentallaws #ClimateAction #Australia #LandClearing #sprawl

Ghost bats out cattle in
“Out of sight and out of mind, northern Australia has the largest intact savanna ecosystem in the world, yet we’re seeing its woodlands bulldozed at a shocking rate while the Australian government turns a blind eye."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/14/out-of-sight-and-out-of-mind-conservationists-alarmed-as-nt-land-clearing-threatens-endangered-ghost-bat-habitat
#Australia #NT #landclearing #cattle #bats #biodiversity #SupplyChainLaw #meat

Bulldozing the Gouldian Finch habitat and getting away with it

"People travel from all over the world to see Australia's iconic wildlife, and Lee Point is no exception to that. People have had the amazing experience of seeing Gordian finches close to a major city, Darwin...It's deeply embarrassing. Australia has absolutely shameful records of conservation and this just contributes to that."

Wildlife ecologist Professor Euan Ritchie "submitted a formal letter to the government and attached several videos that appear to show trees being flattened without fauna spotters directly supervising. “They knew there were endangered species. How can they get away with this?” "
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/aussie-housing-developers-deeply-embarrassing-destruction-of-ancient-forest-sparks-global-condemnation-035027194.html
#LeePoint #biodiversity #birds #Australia #reputation #LandClearing #EndangeredSpecies #ExtinctionCrisis

Agribusiness lobby at COP 28
Lobbyists from industrial agriculture companies and trade groups have turned out in record numbers at Cop28.

Call on rich nations to cut meat consumption: "This follows the recommendation of the Eat-Lancet Commission, which suggests people consume no more than 15.7 kg a year. In 2020, the average American consumed 126kg of meat.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/09/big-meat-dairy-lobbyists-turn-out-record-numbers-cop28

"Meat consumption is highest across high-income countries (with the largest meat-eaters in Australia, consuming around 116 kilograms per person in 2013)."
https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production
#COP28 #BigMeat #pesticide #meat #consumption #lobby #food #LandClearing #ClimateEmergency #BiodiversityCrisis

#Australia #LandClearing #Nature

Australia’s abysmal rates of extinctions and land clearing since European colonisation are infamous globally. Our national environmental legislation has largely failed to protect biodiversity, including many threatened plants, animals and ecological communities. But change is afoot.

The federal government is reforming our national environmental law. Following a scathing review in 2021, the legislation is being rewritten. While amendments to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) are yet to be tabled in parliament, the government says “rolling consultation” has begun.

https://theconversation.com/5-things-we-need-to-see-in-australias-new-nature-laws-217271

And pay landowners of native forest to protect, manage and improve.

Melbourne has treated the Yarra River terribly – but it doesn’t have to stay that way

"The muddiness of the river as we know it now is a result of erosion along its banks and the banks of its tributaries, and that that erosion was in turn a result of widespread land clearing since European colonisation. Before this process all began, so it’s said, the Yarra ran clear."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/27/a-clear-flowing-yarra-harry-saddler-extract
#rivers #Australia #care #water #erosion #landclearing

#Landclearing fines often seen as 'cost of doing business', ex-Tasmanian forest regulator claims #globalwarming #tasmania #deforestation

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-15/land-clearing-in-tasmania-hard-to-quantify-due-to-missing-data/101970900

The Land Clearing crisis in Queensland continues....
"Why is Queensland still clearing so much – and why does it matter?
In a word, beef. Like Brazil, Queensland tears down its forests and woodlands largely to make way for grass to feed livestock – mainly cattle. The latest 2019-20 figures show 85% of all clearing was done to create new pasture."

If #Queensland was a country, it would have been the ninth highest forest destroying nation globally in 2019 – just above China. In 2018-19, truly staggering land clearing, mostly by farmers and #cattle graziers, saw around 680,000 hectares of habitat destroyed – more than the preceding 18 years. The latest 2019-20 figures show 85% of all clearing was done to create new pasture.
https://theconversation.com/why-queensland-is-still-ground-zero-for-australian-deforestation-196644
Brazil Indonesia #Australia #meat #SupplyChains #biodiversity #LandClearing

How Europeans were replaced: in each generation, farmers created new villages thirty or forty km beyond the settlement front.
Pioneer #clearing was not continuous: "it was necessary, when arriving at the level of the middle Danube, for humans, plants and [domestic] animals to become accustomed to the climate."
p.44 "Les dix millénaires oubliés qui ont fait l'Histoire" Jean-Paul Demoule, Fayard
#neolithic #agriculture #settlement #farming #neolithic #landClearing #settling #immigration

I've been here for a couple of weeks, and I've not yet done the polite thing of an #introduction post, so here goes.

My day job is in #webdev for a small company in #Hobart working mostly in #WordPress (reluctantly), as well as #Laravel and #React.

I live in #Glenorchy, #Tasmania (part of Greater Hobart, for those not from these parts) and am interested in how the community and governments can work together to make local communities a better place to live: #urbanism, #walkability, #biking, #housing (as a human right), #coops, #PublicTransport, #TacticalUrbanism, #cycling, #UrbanMobility, #MissingMiddle, #BikeTooter, #StrongTowns, #Trains, #CarDependency (against, obviously).

I’m a #vegan #AnimalRights advocate, and am on the Tasmanian state committee of the #AnimalJusticeParty. I’m also interested in the #environment (read: our ability to continue living on this planet): #ClimateChange, #BiodiversityCrisis, #LandCare, #LandClearing (against, obviously).

That’s enough #hashtag stuffing for one introduction.