Land clearing

Queensland has a long and vexed history over native vegetation clearing. Yet, it still has substantial tracts of intact woodlands and forest, so has lots to lose.

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I was a part of a group that wrote a submission encouraging the Queensland State Government to bring back stronger tree protection provisions to its Vegetation Management Act. From this, I was invited to speak at the public inquiry in 2016. These laws failed to pass, but we were invited to put together a paper for the journal Pacific Conservation Biology outlining the ecological consequences of the current legislation.

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More information can be found on my collaborator Martine Maron's website

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Relevant publications:

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Reside, A. E., Beher, J., Cosgrove, A. J., Evans, M. C., Seabrook, L., Silcock, J. L., Wenger, A. S., & Maron, M. (2017). Ecological consequences of land clearing and policy reform in Queensland. Pacific Conservation Biology, 23(3), 219-230.

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Reside, A. E., Cosgrove, A. J., Silcock, J. L., Seabrook, L., & Evans, M. C. (2017). Land clearing on the rise as legal 'thinning' proves far from clear-cut. The Conversation

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Seabrook, L., & Reside, A. E. (2017). Death by a Thousand Cuts. Protected: Magazine of National Parks Association of Queensland, 16, 7.

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