When the 'Australians dream of home ownership' becomes a nightmare for Australian biodiversity.
Put new mass housing on completely degraded land with no biodiversity values or in the middle of a last biodiversity hotspot? South-east Queensland sprawl, Ipswich, Woogaroo Forest, Lot 9999
There are "plans to sculpt and flatten this land to make way for about 1,800 houses for south-east Queensland’s booming population."
“There is plenty of completely degraded land with no biodiversity values at all to put those houses on...here’s degraded agricultural land, there’s abandoned land, there’s abandoned mines … south-east Queensland is 6m hectares."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/25/woogaroo-forest-ipswich-queensland-housing-development-wildlife-ntwnfb
#biodiversity #degradation #sprawl #housing #EndangeredHabitats #WoogarooForest #LandTenure #wildlife #koalas #birds #extinction #Australia #SEQ
In eucalyptus woodland near Ipswich, where developers see new housing, ecologists see crucial habitat for endangered wildlife such as koalas, frill-necked lizards and increasingly rare birds
Just posted a new symposium essay - Land Reform in the Fifth World - that draws on case studies of active Indigenous-led land reforms happening now across Canada and the Navajo Nation. Property systems are already pluralistic and dynamic, but property scholars tend to focus on only a narrow swath of cases, experiences, and legal sources. This essay addresses that deficit:
“There are over 30 countries where women don’t have the same rights to #landownership and face severe customary and normative constraints"
Marlene Elias, @CGIAR and @BiovIntCIAT_eng, shared hopes and expectations for the GBF framework regarding the formalization of #landtenure
#COP15
https://twitter.com/IISD_ENB/status/1603115819126464520?t=qUnY3DlVmj156gQZ88ZXzw&s=19
““There are over 30 countries where women don’t have the same rights to #landownership and face severe customary and normative constraints" Marlene Elias, @CGIAR and @BiovIntCIAT_eng, shared hopes and expectations for the GBF framework regarding the formalization of #landtenure”
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