Throwing the baby out with the bathwater? It appears current feverish land clearing, mostly for pastoral animal agriculture, makes a mockery of efforts & money to protect threatened species, biodiversity & climate change mitigation.
We chat with Dr Hugh Finn from Curtin Law School who wants the animal welfare implications of land clearing addressed,
April Reside from Queensland University about the crazy levels of land clearing happening there now & Fiona Probyn-Rapsey from UNSW about why we have an unhelpful blind spot when it comes to land use and animal agriculture.
Further information, including the history of land clearing in Qld, courteousy of the Wilderness Society:https://www.wilderness.org.au/land-clearing-queensland#4
Here's the link to the APEEL organisation April Reside mentioned: http://apeel.org.au
Mentioned articles of interest: Hugh Finn https://theconversation.com/land-clearing-isnt-just-about-trees-its-an-a...
April Reside https://theconversation.com/just-ten-mps-represent-more-than-600-threate...
Listen to this thought provoking talk by Fiona Probyn-Rapsey titled, "The Feral Amongst Us":http://www.freedomofspecies.org/show/fiona-probyn-rapsey-feral-amongst-us
The Freedom of Species Team