Australia: 10,000 hectares of cows per year upstaged by monocrop forests
There is concern that prime cattle grazing land in the Kyogle region
will be lost to forestry. Andrew White from Forest Enterprises
Australia says up to 10,000 hectares of new forest will be planted
each year on the north coast.
Kyogle deputy Mayor Robert Dwyer says
investment in forestry is not always good for the region. He says the
forestry industry claims cattle can still graze on the land, but
councillor Dwyer disagrees.
“In some instances that may be the case,
but the ones that I’ve seen the trees are very close together and
certainly there doesn’t seem to be growth of grass etc under these
trees to be able to sustain any significant cattle numbers grazing
through,” he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/200901/s2477353.htm
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Methane is one of the worst climate changing pollutions, and we do not need more beef. We do need more trees to sequester much more carbon than grasslands do. Cows can graze under open tree canopies and produce good milk, they don’t just grow as fast as factories want to produce beef. Viva las arboles, with wildlife benefitting as well as the climate. TEA VT Pasture Network