Re:wild Your Fridge | Australia Case Study
How animal agriculture is driving biodiversity loss in Australia — and what we can do to change course.

Forests replaced with cattle farms

Australia has the highest mammal extinction rate in the world.
The amount of forest and bushland being cleared in Australia every year is enormous — enough to land it on the list of the world’s top deforestation hotspots.
According to the Wilderness Society, nearly 350,000 hectares of forest and bushland were bulldozed during the summer of 2020 and 2021 in Queensland. Almost all of that land — 89% — was for beef cattle pasture.
As forests in Australia are cleared, it creates drier microclimates that can fuel bushfires. Areas where forests have been cleared are warmer — without the trees the soil holds less moisture.
Trees play a critical role in creating rainfall, helping moisture from soils evaporate into the atmosphere. The bushfires of 2019 and 2020 destroyed 12 million hectares of forest. A WWF report found that climate change will make forest fires in Australia more severe in the future.

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