Australia’s interior is arid, with low average annual rainfall and high temperatures causing rivers to dry and lakes empty. The headwaters of some waterways are located in tropical regions where summer rains create a high rate of discharge. The majority of Australia’s interior is desert, with Type B climates dominating. The large land mass can heat up during the summer months, triggering high temperatures.
Australia is located in Oceania between the Indian and South Pacific Oceans and has a topography that is not too varied. The Lake Eyre Basin in the interior of Australia is among the driest places on the continent, with less than 125 millimeters of rain falling each year. The rangelands are home to many of Australia’s Indigenous people and are culturally important for most Australians.
Approximately 40% of Australia’s interior is desert, with Type B climates dominating. Between 2001 and 2006, more than five farming families a day walked away from the land. An as-yet unpublished study funded by the Australian government found that subterranean buildings must be at least four meters deep to prevent their roofs collapsing.
Australia is the driest inhabited continent in the world, with 70 of its land being either arid or semi-arid. The Outback region is more remote than the bush and extends from the northern to southern Australian coastlines. There are several deserts in the arid interior of Australia, covering 18% of its land. Interior Australia tends to have more vegetation than other similar parts of the world.
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Australia is not ” regreening its deserts” with trees. We have had 3 years excess of average rainfall and it is rainfall that is doing the greening. Come the next drought and it will be dead again. Major droughts happen about every 10 years and many of those years are below average rainfall. In Australia death follows life, strangely enough. Something about the best laid plans of mice and men, aka humankind( inclusive of women) to be politically correct. PS the audio is horrible.
It only stands to reason that the reason that Australia being the continent with the most marsupials actually becomes the country had @334 species of gorgeous animals many of them tiny little things, but with white man’s introduction of feral animals cats, foxes, goats, pigs, donkeys, cane toads, rabbits as well as wholesale clearing of forested areas, we have lost about 100 marcupial species. To put it in perspective South America only has about 110 marcupial species. Therefore it is far more appropriate to context species loss in a percentage ratio as compared to other colonised countries rather than emphasise the total number of species lost is it not ? I do not know any Australian who is proud of our track record of extinction. I think it grieves us all. We pause, take a deep breath because we are saddened, understand the devastating loss of biodiversity and being Australians we double down into action of how to resolve the sad situation, just like in Africa when the elephants were being hunted for trophies or shot because rogue elephants were threatening civilisations or assets. There is never any gain in marketing one nation’s dirty laundry in public because you only create a swamp that you get stuck in. The only benefit of understanding loss of biodiversity is exactly what you are going to do about it. I note that the tree planting referred to in this YouTube is funded by Finance Industry carbon sequestration tax laws which is offsets for carbon polluting businesses and normally there is little to no flora species biodiversity involved so it is not quite right to think they are forests because there is little biodiversity but little biodiversity may be better than none.
There are so many historical inaccuracies in this article that it is stunning! The shame of it all is that these inaccuracies reflect the revisionist history that is being taught! As a concrete example – what do you think happened to the ‘megafauna’ of Australia hundreds of years before the colonialists arrived? And what do you think significantly changed the fauna of Australia long before the colonialists arrived? Propaganda. Or, as some would put it “misinformation and disinformation”!
We all know there has been massive deforestation all over the world for the last hundred years. What we need to focus on is getting trees replanted and if that involves tree farming then so be it. Being anti meat entrenches resistance to reforestation. There are ways to do both which would get everyone on board people just have to get off the guilt tripping ; )
I certainly hope these are not monocultural artificial forests that will die in 10 years. Unfortunately they look like that from above. These projects are often a way for governments to tick the ”do something green” box so they can clear more natural land elsewhere. Organizations can also expect government handouts by the are ”reforested” by a single type of tree that will die from infections in a few years to a decade.
Just by looking at the thumbnail, you can tell this is probably a horrible idea if not done correctly. How is clearing out diverse desert ecosystems (releasing tons of stored carbon) and planting sad lifeless monocultures a good thing. Might as well plant palm oil plantations or logging areas. What would happen to all the animals that live in the desert? They should leave the deserts and the forests alone. Cutting down forests and clearing deserts to plant trees is a terrible idea