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Queensland’s forests are still being bulldozed — and new parks alone won’t save them

Queensland’s forests are still being bulldozed — and new parks alone won’t save them

Queensland’s conservation ledger is in the red. Despite some new national parks, bulldozers are still clearing forests and vegetation across the...

24.10.2025 40

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Michelle Ward

Half the remaining habitat of Australia’s most at-risk species is outside protected areas

Hundreds of Australia’s unique species are clinging to life in small patches of habitat. Now researchers have found half of their habitat has no...

23.05.2025 20

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Michelle Ward

More than half of NSW’s forests and woodlands are gone as ongoing logging increases extinction risks, study shows

Since European colonisation, 29 million hectares (54%) of the forests and woodlands that once existed in New South Wales have been destroyed. A...

04.08.2024 1

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Michelle Ward