In 2015 — 16 Australian
beef and veal
production is forecast to
fall 9 per cent from the 2014 - 15 high to 2.4 million tonnes (carcass weight), and
fall again in 2016 - 17, down 7 per cent from the same high to 2.3 million tonnes.
Encroaching agriculture — from
beef to soya
production — to feed a growing and more affluent human population means that, at the current rates, the number of 10,000 km2 landscapes in the Amazon that
fall below the species loss threshold of 43 % forest cover will almost double by just 2030.