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Deforestation kills

"Deforestation is responsible for more than a third of the warming experienced by people living in the affected regions. Deforestation has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/27/deforestation-has-killed-half-a-million-people-in-past-20-years-study-finds
#deforestation #LoggingAndLandclearing #LoggingImpacts #ExtremeHeat #HeatStress #mortality #BiodiversityCrisis #canopy #FossilFuels #ClimateDisruption #degradation #harm

Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds

Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find

The Guardian

BellingenNSW Aug 20

Environmentalist Mark Graham barred from Forestry Corp offices after protest

"Justice Richard Weinstein granted bail on the condition that Mr Graham not travel within half a kilometre of the Forestry Corporation offices."

"Justice Weinstein remarked that a Forestry Corporation vehicle was akin to "a red flag to a bull" for the defendant. It's a very volatile situation up there."

"Mr Graham will return to Coffs Harbour Local Court on September 17."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-20/environmentalist-mark-graham-bail-coffs-harbour/105587574
#LoggingAndLandclearing #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #biodiversity #CoffsHarbour #climatedisruption #ProtectProtest

Environmentalist Mark Graham barred from Forestry Corp offices after protest

A prominent environmentalist has been ordered to stay 500 metres away from Forestry Corporation offices in Coffs Harbour after the NSW Supreme Court heard that seeing forestry vehicles was like "a red flag to a bull" for the defendant.

ABC News

BellingenNSW Jul 23

Clearing rainforest for cattle farming is far worse for nature than previously thought, finds landmark bird survey

"In the largest ever survey of rainforest birdlife, scientists have discovered that deforestation to create pastureland in Colombia is causing around 60% more damage to biodiversity than previously estimated...We found that the biodiversity loss caused by clearing rainforest for pastureland is being massively underestimated.”
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https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/clearing-rainforest-for-cattle-farming-is-far-worse-for-nature-than-previously-thought-finds
#meat #food #deforestation #cattle #pasture #biodiversity #birds #harm #pastoralism #plantations #LoggingAndLandclearing

Clearing rainforest for cattle farming is far worse for nature than previously thought, finds landmark bird survey

In the largest ever survey of rainforest birdlife, scientists have discovered that deforestation to create pastureland in Colombia is causing around 60% more

University of Cambridge

BellingenNSW Jul 21

Coal cooks the climate
Logging wipes out endangered species

"Conservationists have called on the environment minister, Murray Watt, to intervene after satellite images appear to show clearing in threatened species habitat at the site of a proposed coalmine in Queensland."

"We need to preserve these sites because on our country already there are that many mines destroying country, why do we need one more?”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/22/murray-watt-urged-to-intervene-after-accusations-proposed-queensland-coalmine-clearing-land-in-greater-glider-habitat
#Biodiversity #conservation #FossilFuels #coal #ThreatenedSpecies #gliders #laws #LoggingAndLandclearing #destruction