CANBERRA—Drought and fears of a second straight failure of seasonal rains are ratcheting up tensions among cattle ranchers, government and environmental groups over the use of Australia’s public lands.
Cattle prices are plummeting and starving stock is being destroyed in the world’s No. 2 beef exporter after Brazil. Ranchers warn the situation will deteriorate if the government of the Queensland state—which accounts for nearly half the nation’s cattle—sticks to a year-end deadline to close five national parks to grazing….
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