Paul Bibby
The NSW Government has acquired an additional 89 hectares of land to expand Cudgen Nature Reserve and aid the recovery of the Tweed koala population.
Environment Minister Matt Kean said the addition would help to provide long-term habitat protection for native plants and animals on the Tweed Coast, including the endangered Tweed and Brunswick Rivers koala colony.
‘This addition is a significant boost for koala conservation on the Tweed Coast,’ Mr Kean said.
‘It will protect core koala habitat and reduce the potential for fragmentation.’
Mr Kean said his government had worked with Tweed Shire Council on a ‘mutually beneficial land exchange’ which would facilitate an increase the area of koala habitat protected in Cudgen Nature Reserve and also provide a site that council could use as a koala holding and soft release site for sick and injured koalas.
The Cudgen Nature Reserve has a total area of 897.4 hectares and is considered to be of regional and state significance for the conservation of native fauna.
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