Threatened species habitat loss
The increasing production of foods like beef, soy and palm oil has contributed to forest losses around the world, including Australia. Broadscale landclearing in Queensland, for example, has destroyed many hundreds of thousands of hectares of habitat for the koala and other native species. Abroad, the expansion of palm oil plantations between 1990 and 2010 resulted in the loss of about 3.5 million hectares of forest in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.