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

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

Illegal land clearing and the "the cost of doing business".
"A developer convicted and fined for illegally clearing endangered native vegetation from a Melbourne site has since been granted permission to build a multi-million-dollar development on the property...Increasingly, we are seeing an awareness about developers enjoying windfalls from their misbehaviours."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-18/developer-campbellfield-native-vegetation-illegal-clearing/102956858
#endangered #NativeVegetation #crime #LandClearing #laws #vlaues #biodiversity

Carbon offset scheme performing badly
“Deep in the Australian outback, there are billions of dollars being made from carbon farming. It's called Human Induced Regeneration (HIR) and while it's Australia's most popular method of carbon farming, it's also controversial."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-18/experts-criticise-carbon-offset-scheme-730/102736696
Land #degradation #pastoralists #overgrazing #LandClearing #pollution #emissions #carbon #offset

Images suggest land being cleared for cotton farming before permits granted https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-11/land-cleared-for-cotton-farming-northern-territory/101651092 #landclearing #biodiversity #NTpol #auspol #auslaw

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.

The Malaysian Federal Government wants public hearings to be held by state governments before forest reserves can be degazetted for clearing.

#Environment #Malaysia #Forests #LandClearing

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/03/28/before-land-clearing-public-hearings-will-soon-be-essential-parliament-told/