Baronvonrort wrote on May 28^th, 2019 at 6:31pm:

https://www.economist.com/asia/2018/02/24/queensland-is-one-of-the-worlds-worst-...

MOST deforestation takes place in poor countries. In richer places, trees tend to multiply. Australia is an unhappy exception. Land clearance is rampant along its eastern coast, as farmers take advantage of lax laws to make room for cattle to feed Asia. WWF, a charity, now ranks Australia alongside Borneo and the Congo Basin as one of the world’s 11 worst “fronts” for deforestation.

The worst damage occurs in the north-eastern state of Queensland, which has more trees left to fell than places to the south, where agriculture is more established. It has been responsible for over half of Australia’s land clearance since the 1970s. Its bulldozers are at present busier than they have been for a decade. They erased 395,000 hectares of forest, including huge tracts of ancient vegetation, between 2015 and 2016—the equivalent of 1,000 rugby pitches a day. As a share of its forested area, Queensland is mowing down trees twice as fast as Brazil.

and nice if you didn't post stuff that's 6 years old.... Doesn't change the fact that many pastures are out there that are baron of tree's 

Bobby. wrote on May 28^th, 2019 at 7:18pm:

Yes the Labor government in QLD has really done some damage to the environment and destroying our state, along with wanting Adani too.

Bobby. wrote on May 28^th, 2019 at 7:18pm:


What a complete load of bovine excrement. Is there a topic on this planet you know less on?

Go give yourself an uppercut for being so completely stupid.

Rider wrote on May 28^th, 2019 at 9:15pm:



Apologise and get an education from Bobby:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification




From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not to be confused with Decertification or Desertion.
Global desertification vulnerability map
Lake Chad in a 2001 satellite image, with the actual lake in blue. The lake has shrunk by 94% since the 1960s.[1]

Desertification is a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry area of land becomes a desert, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife.[2] It is caused by a variety of factors, such as through climate change (particularly the current global warming)[3] and through the overexploitation of soil through human activity.[4] When deserts appear automatically over the natural course of a planet's life cycle, then it can be called a natural phenomenon; however, when deserts emerge due to the rampant and unchecked depletion of nutrients in soil that are essential for it to remain arable, then a virtual "soil death" can be spoken of,[5] which traces its cause back to human overexploitation. Desertification is a significant global ecological and environmental problem with far reaching consequences on socio-economic and political conditions.[6]




Preventing man-made overgrazing
Goats inside of a pen in Norte Chico, Chile. Overgrazing of drylands by poorly managed traditional herding is one of the primary causes of desertification.
Wildebeest in Masai Mara during the Great Migration. Overgrazing is not caused by nomadic grazers in huge populations of travel herds,[33][34] nor by holistic planned grazing.[35]

The immediate cause is the loss of most vegetation. This is driven by a number of factors, alone or in combination, such as drought, climatic shifts, tillage for agriculture, overgrazing and deforestation for fuel or construction materials. Vegetation plays a major role in determining the biological composition of the soil. Studies have shown that, in many environments, the rate of erosion and runoff decreases exponentially with increased vegetation cover.[36] Unprotected, dry soil surfaces blow away with the wind or are washed away by flash floods, leaving infertile lower soil layers that bake in the sun and become an unproductive hardpan.

Many scientists think that one of the most common causes is overgrazing, too much consumption of vegetation by cattle. Controversially, Allan Savory has claimed that the controlled movement of herds of livestock, mimicking herds of grazing wildlife, can reverse desertification.[37][38][39][40][41]

Bobby. wrote on May 28^th, 2019 at 10:50pm:



Ah yes. The great dam conundrum. Dam the inflow. Lake Chad is shallow. The water is warmer in shallow lakes. Evaporation rises.

Nothing to do with farming.

"How Big Water Projects Helped Trigger Africa’s Migrant Crisis"

https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-africas-big-water-projects-helped-trigger-the...

Rider wrote on May 29^th, 2019 at 7:51pm:

yup and then when it turns into a dust bowl during the first drought because there are no tree's or checks to keep viable, these same people scream at the urban dwellers to dig deep and donate them money to feed those cattle... Disgraceful land management and unsustainable...

lee wrote on May 30^th, 2019 at 1:11pm:


Define native forests in this context please.  Can't see where this goes.....like no one was out there clearing national parks.....but privately owned land, grazing or farming land was impacted immediately by the largest state sponsored property rights theft known in Australia's history.

lee wrote on May 30^th, 2019 at 5:59pm:


Do you mean forestry operations?