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More cows, fewer trees: what could go wrong?
It’s easy to think of rampant land clearing as something that happened long ago – chainsaws and bulldozers carving up the landscape in another era. But the truth is far more confronting. Research estimates that 29 million hectares of forests and woodlands that existed in NSW before 1750 have been destroyed – a staggering 54%…
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The greater glider needs more than promises
The greater glider – that wideeyed, fluffy-tailed icon of Australia’s forests – is slipping towards extinction. Once common across eastern and south-eastern Australia, this gentle nocturnal glider has become a symbol of everything going wrong in our native forests: clearing, fragmentation and the ongoing logging of habitat that simply cannot be replaced. Logging removes hollow-bearing…
