Biodiversity continues to fall across NSW on almost every measure, with damaged and degraded landscapes less able to support life, a new report reveals.
New South Wales could lose roughly 500 species within 100 years as nature struggles to survive escalating threats including habitat loss and climate change. The state government's latest biodiversity report makes for sobering reading and reflects the alarming environmental decline occurring across Australia. It says biodiversity continues to fall across NSW on almost every measure, with damaged and degraded landscapes less able to support plant and animal life.
Native vegetation continues to be cleared in a landscape that recently lost so much to the Black Summer bushfires, with more of the same expected as the climate changes. The clearing of woody vegetation was higher from 2016 to 2021, compared to 2009 to 2015. Much of the clearing has been for agriculture. Clearing for native forestry has declined each year since 2016, decreasing by about a third between 2020 and 2021.
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