The Forestry Corporation’s Planning Portal shows that forest compartments are on the chopping block before the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) boundaries are finalised. Even a moratorium has been ignored.
This was an election promise by the Labor government: ‘To protect koala habitat on the Mid North Coast of NSW’. Such a promise is yet to manifest.
Thus the rights of nature are wilfully violated and koala extinction is ensured by the NSW government. Put another way, the GKNP will be logged, thus ensuring koala extinction before the park is legally protected. Currently 95 per cent of the proposed park is vulnerable to logging.
At this critical time it is obvious that civil society is not represented by the NSW Labor government. Political spin is just so much part of the culture.
There is an answer. The extraordinary work of Bangalow Koalas and private landholders, who have planted more than 377,000 trees across the region. Fragmented habitat exists all over the Byron Shire. Time for citizens’ action to follow the example of Bangalow Koalas. This group of activists have inspired international activists to fly to Australia and plant massive habitat for koalas. It can be done. Let groups of folk restore habitat for persecuted sentient life. We owe it to future generations of all sentient beings.
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