The tragic loss for a family hopefully will not be in vain if the Governments, land owners and environmentalists come to some better arrangements about how land clearing is dealt with – both in permission, conservation attempts as well as its monitoring and procedures.

You can only think we are lucky that guns are not a major part of our society like the USA.  Nevertheless no doubt this murder represents the … Read more »

It gives great optimism when you read that The Economist now says “clearing forests may enrich those who are doing it, but over the long run it impoverishes the planet as a whole”.  Sadly, the same can be said for the Murray Darling Basin – we have all benefited from the food and resources through the use of it but for the long run we need to do it very … Read more »