'Disaster': half a million hectares of forest bulldozed in Great Barrier Reef catchment

Conservationists, Labor and the Greens condemn clearing over four yearsMore than half a million hectares of forest was cleared in the Great Barrier Reef catchments over four years - an area more than twice the size of the Australian Capital Territory.Official environment and energy department data shows that 596,000 hectares of forest was cleared between 1 July 2012 and 30 June 2016. Continue reading...