The North East Forest Alliance has welcomed the Minns Labor government’s promise to create a Great Koala National Park, and have called for a moratorium on logging within the proposed park until the promised assessment is complete.
NEFA spokesperson Dailan Pugh said the Forestry Corporation is targeting the proposed Great Koala National Park in a smash and grab operations to extract as much timber as they can, while they can.
‘They have been removing thousands of Koala feed trees from one of the best Koala strongholds in NSW, compounding the impacts of the 2019/20 wildfires and causing immense damage to Endangered Koala populations.
‘To avoid compromising the integrity of the Labor government’s assessment process this vandalism needs to stop.
‘We look forward to working constructively with the new government to ensure a comprehensive and robust review of the Great Koala National Park is undertaken.’
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