The Tawny Frogmouth: Housing vs Nature
The Australian Government has committed to protect 30% of Australia’s land and seas by 2030 and a range of other commitments in its Nature Positive Plan to not only conserve nature, but repair and expand it.
This will be no mean feat to achieve. In the last 4 years alone, over 379,000 hectares of native vegetation was cleared in NSW. Only 50% of NSW threatened species are expected to survive in 100 years. We’re currently going 120km/h down the highway in the wrong direction. In parallel to the biodiversity crisis, we have a housing crisis. 14,000 households on the Northern Beaches are in rental or mortgage stress. While there are many factors that feed into this crisis, one of them is a shortfall of housing supply.
Read the full article at: https://thetawnyfrogmouth.com.au/housing-vs-nature/
