WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP STOP THIS?
Forestry Corporation NSW plans show that over the next 12 months it intends to log 30,813 hectares of a total 175,000 hectares of state forests that fall within the boundaries of the proposed Great Koala National Park, home to one in five of the state’s surviving koalas.
This would include areas identified by the government as the most important koala habitat in the state at Wild Cattle Creek, Clouds Creek, Pine Creek and in the Boambee State Forests.
“[Forestry Corporation NSW] knows this national park is coming, and they are deliberately ramping up operations within its boundaries to extract as much timber from it as possible,” NSW Nature Conservation Council chief executive Jacqui Mumford said.
“The NSW government committed to protecting koalas by creating the [Great Koala National Park], but before the assessment process even begins, Forestry Corporation plans to log nearly 20 per cent of the park.”
Mumford said it was “ridiculous” that the government was spending $29 million of taxpayers’ money to log koala habitat at a loss while spending additional taxpayer funds to protect the koala.
“Native forest logging is the leading cause of koala habitat destruction. Before the 2019/20 bushfires, koala populations had declined by 50 per cent over 20 years. They are expected to be extinct by 2050, yet the Forestry Corporation is still logging their habitat.”
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE…
Join us in calling for a moratorium on logging within the proposed park by the state-owned Forestry Corporation NSW and demanding that the government of NSW step up to do so NOW before any more of this precious habitat is destroyed.
PLEASE call. email and/or write
The Hon. Penelope Gail Sharpe, MLS,
Minister for Climate Change,
Minister for Energy,
Minister for the Environment
Minister for Heritage
Demand logging within the proposed Koala National Park be stopped NOW.
Mail:
The Hon. Penny Sharpe, MLC
52 Martin Place
SYDNEY NSW 2000
Phone: 02 7225 6020
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“The threat status of koala populations in NSW and Queensland was upgraded to endangered in 2022 in recognition of the species’ continued decline due to land clearing and catastrophic bushfires.”
“These areas continue to be logged despite being identified as the most important koala habitat we know of,” he said.
NOTEWORTHY UPDATE…
Guardian Australia revealed this week that the Perrottet government found native logging could be ended in NSW without costing the budget.
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