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WWF-Australia is promoting agricultural planning and production that avoids tree-clearing, advocating stronger biodiversity laws to protect Australian habitat, and campaigning for a halt to deforestation across the Asia-Pacific region.

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Deforestation greatly impacts on the health of rivers and coastal ecosystems. It increases erosion and the runoff of sediment, nutrients and other pollutants into coastal waters, causing damage to coral reefs and other marine ecosystems such as seagrass beds. Increased nutrients in rivers and streams can cause outbreaks of toxic algae.

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https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_offices/australia/environmental_problems_in_australia/

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Why is it happening and who it's affecting

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Why is it happening and who it's affecting

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One of the reasons that all of these problems are happening is because too many people are cutting down trees and because of forest fires. This affects a lot of things like people and animals, people might have less oxygen or build wood. Animals might not have shelter or food.

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Moreover, studies in Australia's wet tropics are showing that soils have limited capacity to recover from deforestation. This adds to deforestation's price tag. Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) estimates that land degradation costs about $1 billion annually.

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When a lot of trees or a whole forest gets cut down, the salinity of the soil can increase by a large margin. As a result, saline water draining from such areas can affect downstream or downslope water quality. It is estimated that around 7% of the agricultural area of western Australia is suffering from this problem following deforestation.