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Environment
Tracey Ferrier, Liv Casben and Ethan James

Farming fuels NSW land clearing crisis: data

45,000 hectares of land was cleared in NSW in 2022, due to farming, logging and infrastructure. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Land clearing that is driving NSW's nature crisis is charging ahead at an alarming rate with agriculture largely to blame, new government data shows.

An area more than 160 times the size of Sydney's CBD was cleared in 2022, according to the latest study that tracks tree and land cover losses across the state.

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