Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing
- Written by Megan C Evans, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environmental Policy, The University of Queensland
Land-clearing laws are being fiercely debated in both Queensland and New South Wales. These two states are responsible for the majority of cleared land in Australia’s recent history.
The latest assessment from Queensland shows that 296,000 hectares of vegetation was cleared in 2014-15. More than a third of this is remnant vegetation that has...







