Great Barrier Reef: Unesco pushes for tree-clearing controls

UN agency recognises ‘importance of strengthening our vegetation protection laws’, Queensland’s Jackie Trad saysUnesco has acknowledged the importance of stymied tree-clearing controls in Queensland to efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef, according to the state’s deputy premier, Jackie Trad.Trad has emerged from a meeting in Paris with a Unesco official, Fanny Douvere, to declare the state Labor government would restore clearing controls, one of its “key commi