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Sheep farmers have stepped up their campaign against the government's reliance on planting pine trees to offset emissions.

Under the existing Emissions Trading Scheme, planting pine trees for carbon credits is causing land to be repurposed, as it is generally more profitable to plant pine trees than to farm sheep.

Parliament's own environment watchdog has questioned successive

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