I also want to ask for your help to make sure that we are working togehter in the same direction on overcoming woodchipping. Japanese people who are aware of the problems need to know the most effective action to take. As Ainu people, indigenous people of Japan, I am hoping and working to link together and cooperate with each other. I propose that this is not the case. The amount cleared is actually unknown but a minimum is given as 550,000 hectares per annum.
More clearing is done for livestock, houses and agriculture.
The FAO played a key role in the creation of the Tropical Forest Action Plan signed in 1985 but it focuses on promoting commercial forestry. The rate of mammal extinctions in the last 200 years of European settlement in Australia is greater than other continents. But presently, South Australia is the only state with present effective controls on broad acre clearing. There is some protection via the Heritage Agreement Scheme which involves some compensation. Farms with bushland now command a premium over properties which have been fully cleared.