In particular, 9,000 koalas were killed by intensive deforestation. Deforestation is Australia’s greatest hidden environmental crisis, Durant les derniers mois, de gigantesques feux ont ravagé l'Australie, dévastant des millions d'hectares. Deforestation In Australia. La déforestation facilite le passage dans les rivières des engrais, et menace ainsi le récif corallien au large du Queensland. BIOL101 Article Review 5/1/2010 Deforestation It is impossible to overstate the importance of humankind's clearing of the forests. « Et si en Australie les causes des incendies sont surtout naturelles, ce n’est pas le cas au Brésil, en Colombie ou en Indonésie » . Researchers point out that the victims included a large number of reptiles and about 4 million birds.
A new report by the World Wildlife Federation (WWF), The Living Forests, has highlighted Australia as the only developed country in the top 10 deforestation hotspots. The transformation of forested lands by human actions represents one of the great forces in global environmental change and one of the great drivers of biodiversity loss. WWF predicted up to 6 million hectares would be cleared in Eastern Australia by 2030, ranking it with the Amazon, Vietnam, Borneo and the Congo. Innocent victims of deforestation “In 2005-2006, 2 million mammals were killed in deforestation in Queensland, Australia,” according to the World Wildlife Fund. Environment Australia's koalas threatened by deforestation and bushfires. The paper is entitled Little left to lose: deforestation and forest degradation in Australia since European colonisation, and it describes the general trends in forest loss and degradation Australia-wide, followed by state- and territory-level assessments. The impact of people has been and continues to be profound. WWF AUSTRALIA / AFP. The koala is on the verge of "functional" extinction. En septembre 2019, les entreprises Nestlé et Procter & Gamble ont annoncé par ailleurs qu'elles n'atteindraient pas l’objectif zéro déforestation qu'elles s'étaient imposées. Déforestation : le fléau de l'Australie. But eastern Australia ranks alongside these in the top 10 of the world’s major deforestation fronts – the only one in a developed nation.