Around 14,000 hectares of NSW native forest is logged each year, despite inquiries and scientific reports calling for threatened species habitat to be urgently protected following the immense destruction of the Black Summer Bushfires.
To limit wildlife extinctions and stop the biodiversity crisis, the NSW government must urgently protect high conservation value forests from industrial logging in and adjacent to bushfire-affected areas.
Among the forests under threat from industrial logging right now are areas proposed for protection as part of the Great Koala National Park.
The NSW Labor government promised, as part of its 2023 election campaign, to deliver ...
Around 14,000 hectares of NSW native forest is logged each year, despite inquiries and scientific reports calling for threatened species habitat to be urgently protected following the immense destruction of the Black Summer Bushfires.
To limit wildlife extinctions and stop the biodiversity crisis, the NSW government must urgently protect high conservation value forests from industrial logging in and adjacent to bushfire-affected areas.
Among the forests under threat from industrial logging right now are areas proposed for protection as part of the Great Koala National Park.
The NSW Labor government promised, as part of its 2023 election campaign, to deliver the Great Koala National Park.
This would protect an estimated 20% of the state’s remaining koala population from a key driver of extinction—habitat destruction.
However, thousands of hectares of koala habitat within the proposed park area could be destroyed while planning for the park is under way—unless the NSW government acts urgently to suspend logging in these areas.
Please email NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe to push for these native forests to be urgently protected from industrial logging and to establish the Great Koala National Park as quickly as possible.