Green House Healthy Adopts Koala in Australia

Our hearts are broken 💔😥 by the devastating fires in Australia. Green House Healthy has adopted a koala to help save them and their environment. Forests and natural vegetation continue to be cleared at a staggering rate. Globally, 50 football fields every minute are cleared. In Australia, agricultural expansion, particularly for beef cattle production, is the major driver of tree-clearing. Our world needs the trees! 🌲🌳🌴🌱🐨💚🙌

"In southeast Queensland and New South Wales, koalas are losing their homes and their lives. Across Queensland’s Koala Coast, the tree-clearing has become so severe that more than 80% of its koalas have now been lost.

Because when you're completely dependent on trees - for shelter and food - chainsaws and bulldozers spell a death sentence. Those koalas that don't die when trees are felled are forced on to the ground, where they face dog attacks, vehicle accidents, starvation and stress-induced disease.

Throughout eastern NSW, koalas are casualties of some of the highest tree-clearing rates in the world. Populations have declined by a staggering 42% in the past 20 years and the koala is at serious risk of becoming extinct in both NSW and Queensland.

Forests play a major role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and curbing harmful climate change, by capturing and storing carbon. However, they become carbon sources when cut, otherwise removed or burnt. Deforestation and forest degradation accounts for approximately 15% of total global emissions, contributing to rising temperatures, changes in weather patterns and increasingly frequent extreme weather events.

Tree-clearing also has a major impact on the health of soil and water. Without trees to anchor fertile soil, erosion can occur and sweep soil into rivers, choking and polluting our waterways. Estimates suggest that one-third of the world’s arable land has been lost through soil erosion and degradation since 1960. In Australia, sediment, nutrient and pesticide pollution from run-off is threatening the health and resilience of the Great Barrier Reef.

Beyond the environmental effects, deforestation undermines the foundations of secure communities and thriving economies. Millions of people around the world depend directly on forests for hunting, gathering and medicine, while national economies rely on forests for the critical role they play in providing clean water, productive soils, a stable climate, habitat for crop pollinators and pest predators, tourism and recreation." WWF

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