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The latest land-clearing figures for Queensland show reduced activity in sensitive areas but a major increase in the reef catchment area.

Alarming new data shows that over 200,000 hectares of forest and bushland were destroyed in the Great Barrier Reef catchment in 2018-19, illustrating

Laws to protect our most valuable ecosystems from broad scale clearing are working – and the Palaszczuk Government will continue to work with

Landholders in the state cleared 680,688 hectares of woody vegetation in 2018-19, primarily for beef

When customers buy beef from Queensland, they are buying a deforestation-free product – that is the good-news message from agriculture. Australia’s

By the power of sunlight, forests turn huge amounts of carbon in the air into food: sugars for themselves and leaves, bark and roots that feed animals and microbes. Respiration, which happens in the cells of all living things in the forest, releases energy from that food and carbon dioxide (CO2) back into the air.