Land Clearing
Australia's destruction of bushland continues. Every year tens of thousands of hectares of Australian bushland are bulldozed, chained or poisoned to 'improve' land for forestry and agriculture. This is particularly the case in NT, Tasmania and parts of NSW. Clearing is a significant threat to wildlife and source of greenhouse gas emissions.
- Land Clearing in Queensland
- Impacts of Land Clearing
- Land Clearing - it's choking NSW
Huge bulldozers using chains to drag down swathes of native bushland were a common sight in western Queensland for many years - but thanks to pressure from the community the State Government has acted to phase out broadscale land clearing by December 2006.
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The disastrous impacts of Land Clearing have been well documented. Land clearing directly kills millions of birds and animals leading to the extinction of species, it is the biggest cause of salinity ruining farmlands and farmers' livelihoods and it causes a significant amount of Australia's greenhouse gases. Land clearing is destroying our wildlife, rivers and farmland...
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Land Clearing is the greatest threat to nature in NSW. While NSW has now got legislation in place to make the bulldozing of these important remnants illegal, the Iemma government has been very slow to initiate enforcing their own laws.
more »Land Clearing Updates
- Stock Routes Campaign strikes a chord - November 05, 2008
- NSW Government action needed on Red Gums - November 05, 2008
- A prosperous future for Cape York - October 13, 2008
Some Australian icons bring together people from all walks of life! With the fate of Australia’s unique Travelling Stock Routes (TSR) Network in the balance, an alliance of drovers, graziers and conservation groups, including The Wilderness Society, has been formed to champion its long-term protection.
Thousands of people across NSW and the rest of Australia have written to the NSW government over the past month, demanding it take action to protect the River Red Gum Forests of the Murray region. Now, two new reports show that the logging is both uneconomic and in some areas, illegal.
A World Heritage nomination for Cape York Peninsula will help shape a healthy and prosperous future by integrating the needs of communities with the needs of nature, creating real jobs and a sustainable futures, while conserving the superlative natural and cultural values of the region.
Land Clearing Media Releases
- $3.5 million to fight land clearing stolen by NSW Environment Department - June 11, 2008
- The Wilderness Society backs community action on illegal landclearing in NSW - February 17, 2008
- Premier Iemma moving in the right direction on Land Clearing...but definitely more to do - April 04, 2007 The Wilderness Society welcomes Premier Iemma's ministerial shake-up, identifying the new mega environment department (including environment, climate change and water) as the way forward for ending illegal land clearing in NSW.
The Department of Environment and Climate Change has today been accused by The Wilderness Society of stealing $3.5 million promised by Premier Iemma to crack down on illegal land clearing.
The Wilderness Society is supporting local community action in Tocumwal to protest against the clearing of River Red Gum trees along the Murray river.
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