@wilderness_aus: 🚨 This drone footage, filmed near Townsville in Queensland, shows recent deforestation for beef production. Long piles of bulldozed forest and bushland line the stripped landscape, and the destruction borders a creek in the Great Barrier Reef catchment. 🌊 Deforestation in Great Barrier Reef catchments—areas where watercourses lead to the Reef—trashes waterways, smothers the reef, chokes coral, threatens habitat and contributes to climate change. 🛰️ This destruction was identified and verified through the Wilderness Society’s Watch on Nature citizen science platform. Captured by Paul Hilton, this footage demonstrates the urgent need for action to rein in broadscale deforestation and land clearing in Queensland. 🌳 Australia faces a deforestation crisis, destroying vast areas of native forest and bushland and putting threatened species on the fast track to extinction. In the last 200 years, almost 50% of Australia’s forests have been wiped out, making it one of the worst countries for deforestation among developed nations. ⚠️ Queensland has the highest rates of deforestation in Australia—totalling more deforestation than all other states combined. 📍 Location: near Townsville, Queensland 📅 Date filmed: 2025 📷 Credit: Paul Hilton 👉 Learn more about Watch on Nature and deforestation at the link in our bio. #LandClearing #QueenslandBushland #Townsville #GreatBarrierReef #DroneFootage #BeefProduction #Deforestation #WatchOnNature #QLD #Australia

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