ANALYSIS: Think Australia's bushfires killed a lot of animals? Weak environmental laws threaten the lives of more
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A review of 10 years of land clearing in New South Wales, conducted by Professor Gibbons and colleagues, found that barely any of the land clearing in that state had been offset, even poorly. "Through time, more and more exemptions snuck into the policy. So in the end, only 13 per cent of clearing under the [Native Vegetation] Act was offset."Campbell Newman's government relaxed clearing laws in 2013"You're talking about figures of 300,000 hectares a year being bowled over in Queensland. Lots of that is threatened species habitat. Lots of that is threatened ecosystems.
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