Angus Stewart on Attracting Native Animals to the Garden

On a national scale, right now Australia is facing some big challenges on our native fauna front. Everywhere we look, we can find news on the looming threat to the habitats of some of our most beloved native animals. As I write this, The Guardian has just reported on Australia’s status as a ‘global deforestation hotspot’ (complete with the most heart wrenching image of a mother and baby koala sitting homeless atop a bulldozed log pile). In shocking statistics, the article claims that 45 million animals are killed due to this rabid land clearing each year in Queensland alone. Across the border, the NSW government has just paved the way for mass land clearing for a second time, after the laws were deemed invalid by the Land and Environment Court. After some small hope of reprieve, the state’s most threatened Aussie animals aren’t on safe ground.

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