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Environment
Marty Silk

Habitat destruction lacks oversight in Qld

A report shows more than a fifth of the land cleared illegally was likely to be koala habitat. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

The Queensland pastoral industry has destroyed vast areas of threatened-species habitat protected under federal law without consequence, a report says.

More than 6800 square kilometres of land, an area larger than the Sultanate of Brunei, was cleared in 2018/19, according to the latest state government data.

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