The plan to protect wildlife displaced by the Hume Highway has failed

Friday, May 26, 2017 - 06:12 in Biology & Nature

It's no secret that human development frequently comes at a cost to other creatures. As our urban footprint expands, native habitat contracts. To compensate for this, most Australian governments require developers to invest in biodiversity offsetting, where habitat is created or protected elsewhere to counterbalance the impact of construction.

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