'Bombshell': Just one-sixth of rural land-clearing tracked in NSW, ANU's Philip Gibbons says

By Peter Hannam
Updated May 3 2016 - 9:39am, first published 7:01am
Tough work: Environment Minister Mark Speakman says the burden of biodiversity protection is increasingly falling to farmers. Photo: Brendan Esposito
Tough work: Environment Minister Mark Speakman says the burden of biodiversity protection is increasingly falling to farmers. Photo: Brendan Esposito

Farmers are clearing land six times faster than detected by the NSW government, and most offsets used to compensate for vegetation destruction merely preserve existing conservation areas, according to unpublished research by Philip Gibbons, a leading biodiversity expert.

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