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Anyway the new report, entitled Woody Vegetation Change, Statewide Landcover and Tree Study, says that, ‘The calculated annual loss of woody vegetation for 2019 was 54,500 hectares, or 0.08 per cent of the area of NSW’. That’s nearly one per cent of land in NSW cleared every year. How sustainable is that? Eighty six per cent of all clearing was accounted for by agricultural practices, say the authors, and ‘Clearing activities related to infrastructure accounted for the remaining 14 per cent of vegetation loss, which was comparable to the previous year’s figures’. If we back up a few more years, the picture wasn’t much better. ....