'Alarm bells are going off' as not one koala has been seen in areas south-west of Nowra since the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires.
abc.net.au/news/koala-extinctions-report-bushfires-shoalhaven/101945036An area on the NSW south coast could be the latest part of the Sydney Basin to have lost its koala population, a new study has found.
"We've lost Pittwater, we've lost the Central Coast, we're looking like we're losing Shoalhaven, and the only really growing koala colony is the one around Campbelltown Wollondilly and it is being assaulted by urban development," he said.Koalas, like this one found on a rooftop at Emu Plains in Sydney, are moving further into urban areas.
"They burned about 60 per cent of the koala habitat in the Shoalhaven just during those few months of fires and we would assume as a result of that there has not been a sighting of a koala since in that area, which is really heartbreaking." Campbelltown local government area has a koala plan of management, but Ms Lane believed the protections contained within it were not strong enough for actions such as saving essential koala corridors.
Environment Defenders Office special counsel Cerin Loane said current laws intended to protect critically endangered koalas simply were not up to scratch and could all too easily be overruled.
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