More than half of NSW’s forests and woodlands are gone as ongoing logging increases extinction risks, study shows
- Written by Michelle Ward, Lecturer, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
Since European colonisation, 29 million hectares (54%) of the forests and woodlands that once existed in New South Wales have been destroyed. A further 9 million ha have been degraded in the past two centuries. This amounts to more than 60% of the state’s forest estate.
We will never know the full impacts this rampant clearing and...





