A selection of environmental news briefs from around the country.
“THOUSANDS OF HECTARES OF FOREST WITHIN THE PROPOSED NATIONAL PARK AREA COULD BE DEMOLISHED WHILE PLANNING TAKES PLACE.”
The NSW government promised a park to save koalas from extinction, but won’t stop logging it in the meantime.
Every year in NSW, around 14,000ha of native forest—home to an astounding array of globally unique plants and animals—is torn apart by logging. This is compounding the devastation wrought by the Black Summer Bushfires and is pushing some of Australia’s most iconic wildlife to the brink of extinction—including our eucalypt-munching marsupials.
The NSW Labor government has realised that something must be done to
