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Publication Info: Guardian Australia
Date of Publication: October 16
Year of Publication: 2019
Publication City: Sydney, Australia
Publisher: Guardian Media Group
Author(s): Anne Davies, Mike Bowers, Andy Ball , Nick Evershed
An epidemic of land clearing is sabotaging efforts to address climate change. Farming communities are bitterly divided over the issue – but it also has global consequences.
Roger Fitzgerald’s family has been farming near Moree since 1925. But these days he feels under siege on his own farm. His 1,700-hectare property, 50km north of the town, is now surrounded by the operations of the sprawling agribusiness Beefwood Farms, which has been steadily buying up land in New South Wales to expand its operations.
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