The vegetation offset approach is complex, and many ecologists and conservationists are critical of it. There are also many exemptions from the native vegetation clearing regulations, including for government departments and agencies that clear large areas.
VNPA is advocating for strong laws, regulations and well-resourced programs to ensure Victoria stops and reverses the further loss of our bushland and habitats. You can also read about our views in the submissions we have made to various public consultation processes. And at the local level, we have been working with the Bendigo community to establish the Bendigo Bushland Ambassadors program. As part of the program we published the Living Next to Nature booklet which shows local residents how to look after the bush that surrounds their city.
Skip to main content ». Search for: Search. WWF-Australia is promoting agricultural planning and production that avoids tree-clearing, advocating stronger biodiversity laws to protect Australian habitat, and campaigning for a halt to deforestation across the Asia-Pacific region. Increasingly, we have focused on remedying the fundamental market and governance failures that drive poor land use practices.
Achieving Zero Net Deforestation and forest Degradation ZNDD by requires a range of different, but complimentary approaches: - In and around forests we need clear land tenure rights, transparent and equitable land use planning processes and forestry and farming practices that produce more from less land.
Excessive tree-clearing is threatening to wipe out east coast koalas. WWF-Australia is working to support: - Koala hospitals in southeast Queensland and NSW - Koala habitat restoration projects in Greater Sydney - Landholder engagement in habitat protection and restoration - Efforts to urge governments to toughed tree-clearing laws. Deforestation can occur quickly through fire or clear-felling to make way for plantations, crops or pasture.
It can also proceed gradually, for example as a result of unsustainable logging or climate change. So forests are commonly replaced by other land uses that generate higher short-term returns.
Globally, deforestation is mostly caused by agriculture, mining and infrastructure projects, and more intense and frequent fires. New roads open up forests to settlers and agriculture, while destructive logging practices and unsustainable wood collection can lead to a spiral of degradation that eventually results in deforestation. In Southeast Asia, clearing for oil palm and pulp plantations has had a devastating impact. Particularly in Indonesia, fire is still used to clear the land and can rapidly spread out of control.
Rubber, sugar and mining are also linked to deforestation. In Australia, agricultural expansion, particularly for beef cattle production, is the major driver of tree-clearing. This had almost come to a halt following a ban on excessive tree-clearing, but accelerated again after a weakening of controls in Queensland in Bushfires are also implicated in forest loss, and are expected to increase in frequency and intensity due to climate change.
GFTN links hundreds of companies, forest-dependent communities, non-governmental organisations and entrepreneurs in more than 30 countries around the world, with the goal of creating a market for environmentally responsible forest products. The GFTN works at national and regional levels to expand the area of forests under responsible and credibly certified forest management.
It also works to encourage demand for wood and paper products from those well-managed forests. The GFTN helps forest managers benefit from sustainable forest management, while helping processors, manufacturers and retailers reduce the risk of being associated with deforestation, biodiversity loss and social conflict.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians, whose land we work upon and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. At WWF, we work in Australia and in our Asia-Pacific backyard to protect endangered species and habitats, meet the challenge of climate change, and build a world where people live in harmony with nature.
In a statement to the ABC, a spokesperson for the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources said that is was "misleading to make simple comparisons" between the different reporting methods, and that the Department was confident its records are "complete and accurate". Meanwhile, Australia continues to be compared with some of the worst offending countries in the world when it comes to land clearing. The data for the reporting periods, particularly from Queensland and New South Wales, will determine whether that has changed.
Additional context has been added to note that Regional Forest Agreements include environmental protections; and a video claiming to show illegal logging has been removed. The inaccuracies and lack of context in this article as originally published unduly focused on the role of native forestry in land-clearing. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.
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