Analysis shows area includes 9,000 hectares where there was already active logging as pressure grows on government to end practice
Conservationists say forest areas that include 41,000 hectares of nationally important koala habitat have been identified for potential logging on the north coast ofpressure grows
“Both the NSW and commonwealth governments have got to stop logging in areas they have identified as the most important koala habitat,” Dailan Pugh, the president of the North East Forest Alliance, said.Pugh analysed a supplementary report to the national koala recovery plan that identified areas of habitat that were considered of national importance.
The Greens MLC Sue Higginson, who has attended forest protests in northern NSW, called on the “NSW and federal Labor governments to act immediately to protect the 40,000 hectares of nationally important koala habitat”.“Koalas are listed as threatened with extinction at both the state and federal level and without intervention will be extinct in NSW by 2050,” she said.
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