17 June, 2015

Queensland triples its land clearing - leaked figures


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eaked figures obtained by the ABC show land clearing in Queensland last year was around 278,000 hectares — triple what it was in 2009.

The scale of the clearing is of a size larger than the ACT with one property alone permitted to clear 600 square kilometres.

Martin Taylor for conservation group WWF described the increase as "meteoric and extremely alarming".

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