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Koala habitat cleared for housing development against Environment Department’s offset policy
The Federal Environment Department approved the clearing of more than 75 hectares of critical koala habitat west of Brisbane in breach of its own policy.
Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) reveal two housing developments in the Ipswich area “lacked consistency” with the…
- By Peter McCutcheon
- ABC
Nonetheless, the department approved the land clearing in January 2018 “in order to maintain consistency in decision making” with other projects that had already been given the green light.
“That’s not good…