Australia is in the midst of a full-blown land-clearing crisis. Projections suggest that in the two decades to 2030, 3m hectares of untouched forest will have been bulldozed in eastern Australia.
The crisis is driven primarily by a booming livestock industry but is ushered in by governments that fail to introduce restrictions and refuse to apply existing restrictions.
And more than just trees are at stake.
Australia has a rich biodiversity, with nearly 8% of all Earth’s plant and animal species finding a home on the continent. About 85% of the country’s plants, 84% of its mammals and 45% of its birds are found nowhere else.
But land clearing is putting that at risk. About three-quarters of Australia’s 1,640 plants and…
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Exposing the Big Game 
We are killing the planet for our own desires. it is systematic and we have apparently lost our minds and our moral compass..Someone in power please stop the human madness of killing everything everywhere.. Humans are the cause of all this destruction and misery perpetrated on the other citizens of the world that are voiceless they need their homes and habitats to live…Wake up humans and stop taking it all… SHARE the planet ! Speciesism is the worst blight on the planet
Completely agree, except that no ond in power cares about the planet (or they wouldn’t be in power).