Forestry Corp are at it again logging koala habitats – oh but wait! Down Port Macquarie way forestry are giving away free koala food seedlings – so that’s OK? But seedlings take 15 to 20 years to get to the size to accommodate koalas. Landowners are planting seedlings and that’s great, but if forestry thinks giving thousands of free saplings away, and think that will compensate for raping mature koala habitat, well it’s not cutting it with us – is it?
I wish the landowners happy planting and hope in 15 to 20 years you have koalas in your trees, if there’s any left in the logged out state forest, that is. I am hoping that the koalas still survive. I don’t rely on the state regime to save them. Not while they are allowing the koala habitats to be logged.
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