Conservationist warns Australia’s renewable energy push ‘fragmenting forests’ and wiping out wildlife, as new mapping exposes scale of land clearing for wind and solar projects

Conservationist warns Australia’s renewable energy push ‘fragmenting forests’ and wiping out wildlife, as new mapping exposes scale of land clearing for wind and solar projects

Australia’s push to meet its net zero targets is fuelling a new wave of environmental destruction, according to conservationist and photographer Steven Nowakowski, who says pristine wilderness areas are being bulldozed for “so-called green energy”. Speaking to Sky News’ Chris Kenny on the Kenny Report, Mr Nowakowski said vast tracts of old-growth forest in Queensland are being cleared to make way for industrial-scale wind and solar farms, includ…