Readers need to be aware just how deceptive is the current plan for the Great Koala National Park (GKNP). According to the Bob Brown Foundation, the boundaries currently exclude some of the highest-value koala habitat available, such as Pine Creek, Orara West and Tuckers Nob State Forests, and even the existing Bongil Bongil National Park.
An additional horrific deception is that some native forest has been wrongly labelled as plantation, apparently just to enable ongoing clear-felling, and it seems there is more precious koala habitat outside the provisional GKNP boundary than inside.
And there’s more! Those sacrifice zones include vital connection corridors for koalas and other wildlife, while their destruction will also seriously pollute both the Solitary Islands Marine Park, and community water supplies downstream.
Doro Babeck, NSW Campaigner for Bob Brown’s Foundation, and an expert on the GKNP, has said: ‘That is not protection, it is abandonment. A park with holes carved through it cannot function as a conservation reserve.’
Keep an eye out for further treachery, and diarise March 22 for BBF’s big March in March and Rally for Forests, in Lismore for Northern Rivers, in combination with simultaneous marches right down the east coast.
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