#koalas — Public Fediverse posts

Koala severely injured by logging action

"The koala was euthanised on welfare grounds the following day." >>
https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/locals-distressed-by-koala-death-at-pine-creek-state-forest
#koalas #LoggingIndustry #plantations #NSW #MidnorthCoast #mortalities #FCNSW #PineCreek #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #CollateralHarm

"The koala population
in the Burbank bushland (south-east Queensland) ...has suffered massive losses in the past 20-30 years."

"...Those little ones cross roads, walk into backyards with dogs or trip into swimming pools … we've had all of those types of koalas rescued..."

Strapping tracking collars around their necks and buzzing the marsupial with thermal drones will now help monitor the sprawling urbanisation, cars and dogs?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-25/tracking-collars-monitor-qld-koala-populations/106938890
#koalas #wildlife #HabitatFragmentation #Burbank #SEQueensland #greenbelt #GofetchMyData #dogs #pets #roads #conservation #telemetry

Logging the Promised Land, Bellingen/ Gleniffer

Promised Land Forest! Tuckers Nob, 250 ha, 130ha clearfall, 120 ha thinning.

Stakeholder Consultation - Remnant Forest Protection & Tuckers Nob Forestry Operations Compartments 8, 10, 11, 12, 17 18 >>
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TuckersRemnantsSurvey-Residents

How NSW Forestry converts native forest to plantations , Dr Tim Cadman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wY9HzWwEvs

Unfortunately most residents and Friends groups use (closed) proprietary social media platforms, owned by the parent company of Meta Platforms
#SaveTuckersNob #FriendsOfTuckersNob #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #loggingIndustry #loggingIndustry #loggingImpacts #biodiversity #remnants #wildlife #koalas #harm #Gleniffer #Bellingen #PromisedLand #NSW #MIdNorthCoast #SaveChristmasHoles

Biodiversity under the wheels

Koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats and other wildlife are forced to dwell in fragmented spaces having to cross many roads to go about their life. Mobility design is primarily for combustion machines to fly along their supply chains. The mobility needs of the un-motorised is not taken care of with the existing infrastructure.

"Tens of thousands of collisions with animals are recorded each year across Australia and the number appears to be rising. According to NRMA Insurance claims data, there was a 21% rise in animal collision claims from 2024-2025."

"Many large animals, including kangaroos, are most active at dusk and night, often moving to feed along roadside vegetation. Insurance data shows collisions are concentrated on regional and rural roads, where higher speeds, limited lighting and greater exposure to wildlife increase risk." >>
https://theconversation.com/crashes-involving-animals-spike-in-winter-heres-how-to-avoid-them-281531
#biodiversity #wildlife #MobilityDesign #vehicles #roads #speed #RoadTrauma #kangaroos #wallabies #koalas #wombats #birds #crashes

the stars of this week's feature in #CurrentBiology are more than 400 cuddly #koalas! It's all about #conservation #genomics, also covering eg #SnowLeopards, #SeaSnails, #lemurs https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/survival-secrets-of-koalas.html

#science #genome

A koala unfriendly infrastructure

"The sixth koala killed between Bonville and Repton."

No virtual fencing, no AI sensors, no speed restrictions
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https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/koala-highway-death-raises-questions-over-wait-for-signage

"Signs are litter on a stick
Signs are white noise motorists ignore
Signs are a cheap option"
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet with Ben Goldfarb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVkw0fOslck
#koalas #wildlife #Biodiversity #conservation #roads #highways #NegativeExternalities #Infrastructure #cars #vehicles #crashes #ExtinctionCrisis #RoadEcology #RoadKill #signage #fencing #MidNorthCoast #ThegreatkoalaNationalPark #Bellingen #Repton #Bonville #Coffs #WildlifeSafety

Koala signage (litter on a stick) erected and then vandalised by motorists. Bellingen/ Gleniffer

Save The Koala Day .

#savethekoalas #koalasofinstagram #koala #koalababy #koalalove #babykoala #koalalife #koalarescue #koalafreak #koalas #koalafanworld #koalabear #koalabears #australia #savethekoala #australiananimals #koalagang #animals #koalasgram #wildlife #australiankoalafoundation #animal #koalapark #animallovers #australianwildlife #koalachallenge #koalasanctuary #cute #nature #cutekoala

https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/save-the-koala-day/

Monetising the great koala national park

"The government estimates the park’s value as a tourism destination will generate an extra $163m for the state’s economy over two decades. The native logging division of NSW Forestry Corporation has run at a loss for several years...The Minns government on Sunday revealed the proposed outlines of the park, fulfilling its 2023 election commitment...A moratorium on logging within its boundaries begins on Monday."
End native forest logging across NSW. Recognise remnant flora and fauna in 'plantations'.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/08/minns-140m-great-koala-national-park-regional-towns-coalition-nsw
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #ecosystems #value #nature #commodification #NSWLogging #FailedAssets #FCNSW #StrandedAssets #MidNorthCoast #deforestation #plantations #extractivism #CashCow #ExtinctionCrisis

Image: Anthropomorphic image of a koala unboxing the cornucopia of a tourist park.

Protecting Australia's unique ecosystems or extractivism as usual ?

"With one of the highest rates of extinction in the world and more than 7.7 million hectares of threatened species habitat destroyed since 2000, Australia is considered by many to be in a biodiversity crisis...The agenda is entirely geared towards fast-tracking development."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-05-01/federal-election-2025-nature-laws-environmental-policies/105203334
#BiodiversityCrisis #EPBCAct #Biodiversity #ecosystems #conservation #NaturePositive #NatureNegative #EnvironmentalLaws #FossilFuels #koalas #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #governance #failure #extractivism

'Plantation' logging is native forest logging in koala habitat

Tuckers Nob Compartment 017 >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwM15WrJpg
#LoggingImpacts #destruction #NSWLogging #FCNSW #koalas #biodiversity #rainforest #The #GreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob

"The inherited pro-extinction settings remain – bugger the country."

"If the majority of the community – by definition, the political centre – is resolutely against the destruction of the natural world, why is our political and regulatory system stuck on the “kill” setting?"

" We have the ignominious distinction of having among the highest rates of deforestation and species extinction in the world. Even the koala is listed as endangered in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory."
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https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/topic/environment/2025/02/22/wa-must-not-dictate-nature-policy#mtr
#extinction #lobby #extractivism #ResourceFrontiers #WA #ecocide #Biodiversity #koalas #ecosystems #collapse #FossilFuels #NatureNegative #destruction

Documentation of the systematic destruction of Tuckers Nob forests

"Presentation for Friends of Tuckers Nob on the history and significance of Tuckers Nob State Forest and why it must be included in the NSW Government's proposed 'Great' Koala National Park. Based on a recent preliminary report submitted to government, showing the original forest and koala sightings, with a list of moratorium areas (including Tuckers). All the most recent developments, bringing the viewer up to date. This is why we need a #GreaterKoalaPark, with no logging."

The video has a link to the report containing the results (maps) of the investigations by Dr Tim Cadman and local community-based citizen scientists:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKZvVjG_XvM
#ResourceFrontiers #extractivism #biodiversity #ecocide #koalas #NativeForests #rainforest #BellingenLogging #clearfelling #NSWLogging #Bellingen #community #trauma #harm #moratorium #FCNSW #plantation #conversion #annexation #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #bushfire #risk

Logging the great koala national park

"Before the next election round lets make sure The Great Koala National Park is secured. Its the last chance for the survival of our Koala population on the Eastern Seaboard of Australia."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE7NQbRGZ2U
#biodiversity #FCNSW #NSWLogging #governance #harm #destruction #pinecreek #SaveTuckersNob #wildlife #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #LoggingImpacts

Human-mediated extirpation of wildlife through logging

"Before industrial logging in south-west British Columbia, there were nearly 1,000 spotted owls in the old-growth forests. But they have vanished in recent decades, victims of habitat destruction. Activists have tried in vain to hold the government to account, alleging protected species laws have failed to prevent the extirpation of the owls."

"Efforts to revive the population have failed, with a pair of owls released from the breeding program dying within months. The lone female in the wild is also believed to have died."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/12/canada-owl-rats-valentines-day

What happened to the Northern Spotted Owl? >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_spotted_owl
#LoggingImpacts #harm #birds #biodiversity #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #Wildlife #habitat #destruction #degradation #extirpation #NSWLogging #SaveTuckersNob #koalas #BellingenLogging #SettlerSociety #governance #ecocide

Calls for end to logging in NSW state forests assessed for the Great Koala National Park

Koala habitat: After the "logging and everything's smashed. It's just completely obliterated"
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-24/nsw-logging-state-forest-great-koala-national-park/104821426
#NSWLogging #FCNSW #NSW #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #biodiversity #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #rapid #deforestation #destruction #ResourceFrontiers #bushfires #risks #StopNativeForestLogging #plantation #RemnantVegetation

Logging in forest earmarked for koala national park increasing under NSW Labor, analysis finds
“Far from protecting the great koala national park, they are accelerating its degradation."

"Logging of native forest in the proposed great koala national park (GKNP) in northern New South Wales has intensified since the Minns government took office, according to new analysis by conservation advocates."

The report, which the state’s forestry corporation disputes, found 7,185 hectares (17,700 acres) were logged within the promised park in the 21 months since the March 2023 state election. Dailan Pugh, the president of the North East Forest Alliance, said this was about 8.4% of the area identified for potential logging and included habitat for endangered koalas and another 37 threatened species....They’re still logging areas they’ve identified as high density for koalas,” Pugh said."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/13/logging-in-forest-earmarked-for-koala-national-park-increasing-under-nsw-labor-analysis-finds
#TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #degradation #NSWLogging #FCNSW #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #koalas #gliders #biodiversity #governance #StopLoggingKoalaHabitat

Drone locates 20 koalas in forest due to be logged next year

"A thermal drone imaging survey has been conducted over a plantation within the Great Koala National Park footprint. 20 koalas were detected over two nights at Tuckers Nob State Forest, which is due to be logged in the New Year."

The so called 'plantations' are more like native forests. Tuckers Nob forest must be included in the great koala national park. Video>>
https://www.nbnnews.com.au/2024/12/18/drone-locates-20-koalas-in-forest-due-to-be-logged-next-year/
#LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #koalas #SaveTuckersNob #Bellingen #Gleniffer #plantations #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #conservation #drones #RadioTelemetry #FCNSW #destruction

The government promised a koala national park. Then their loggers moved in

"Logging inside the Great Koala National Park assessment area is four times more intense when measured by area than in nearby state forests outside the park, and environmentalists say the targeted areas are wreaking maximal environmental damage...New analysis suggests the NSW government’s own logging arm is trashing the forest inside the proposed park." >>

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/the-government-promised-a-koala-national-park-then-the-loggers-moved-in-20241104-p5knro.html ($ wall)
#logging #MidNorthCoast #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NSW #biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #destruction #FCNSW #breaches #SaveTuckersNob #subsidies #bushfires #risks #crime #violence #ResourceFrontiers #offsets #ClimateEmergency #governance

Greater gliders
"were once common along the east coast, but have since disappeared.. more than half the total population has been wiped out in just over two decades."

"Hundreds of endangered gliders have been sighted in NSW forests earmarked for logging. Surveys conducted by community conservationists documented more than 10 times the number of critical glider "den trees", and more than three times the number of gliders themselves, compared to those found by Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) in its mandated pre-logging surveys.The logging in those forests is planned to continue despite the regulator being told about the sightings."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-17/endangered-greater-gliders-nsw-forests-logging-conservationist/104478304
#gliders #koalas #biodiversity #FCNSW #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #harm #destruction #extinction #NSWLogging #TallagandaSF #bulga #CitizenScience #BioNet #extinction makers

Halt all operations in public forests

"Margo Kingston was arrested on Thursday after locking herself on to machinery at a protest against logging in Bulga state forest in mid-north NSW."

“I’m taking this action to protect this beautiful and biodiverse forest which is full of koalas and greater gliders,” she said before her arrest."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/10/margo-kingston-arrested-nsw-anti-logging-protest-ntwnfb
#loggingIndustry #NSWLogging #ProtectProtest #bulga #koalas #gliders #NatureNegative #CitizenScience #bioNet #FossilFuel #machinery #biodiversity #climate #MidNorthCoast #StopNativeForestLogging

Bellingen 2/2

Hyde and Church St.:
Bumper-to-bumper road trains speeding through drive through town. Horizontal native forests fly by on logging trucks. Amplified 'music' tries to overpower the fossil fuel soundscape. A non-place between Paramatta Rd. and Luna Park.
In Church St. (which really is just another car park) food consumers are being polluted by car fumes. Breastfeeding parents idle in their air-conditioned SUVs.

Council updated the tidy garden beds along the road with new weeds. Indian mynas are rapidly replacing native birds.

The 'Koala shampoo for dogs' summed it all up.

#Bellingen #roads #FossilFuels #ClimateExtremes #BellingenLogging #LoggingImpacts #Bellingen #suburbia #trucks #pollution #koalas #birds #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity

#SaveTuckersNob
#GreatKoalaPark
#StopLoggingKoalaHabitat
#koalas #biodiversity
#ClimateEmergency
#Bellingen #NeverNever #river
#FCNSW #Gleniffer
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https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/112878560742542678
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/112878562532954829

#SaveTuckersNob
#GreatKoalaPark
#StopLoggingKoalaHabitat
#koalas #biodiversity
#ClimateEmergency
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https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/112878560742542678

#SaveTuckersNob
#GreatKoalaPark
#StopLoggingKoalaHabitat
#koalas #biodiversity
#ClimateEmergency
#FCNSW #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry
#BellingenLogging #destruction
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https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/112878562532954829

‘Lawless’ loggers?

'Rogue' government agency Forestry Corporation of NSW accused of more illegal logging

"There are fresh claims that a NSW government agency is illegally logging the habitats of threatened species. A New South Wales government agency has now racked up more than $1.1 million in penalties for more than a dozen instances of unlawful activity in less than five years, including seven criminal convictions.It also faces three more criminal prosecutions that could result in up to $12 million in additional penalties, if found guilty, and is under investigation for a further 18 potentially-illegal actions."

"That agency is the state government-owned logging company, Forestry Corporation of NSW...The ongoing breaches by Forestry Corporation, despite strong enforcement action by the EPA, suggested there was an ingrained culture of non-compliance at the logging agency.'"
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-24/nsw-government-forestry-corporation-illegal-logging-allegations/104126534
#StopNativeForestLogging #NSWlogging #BellingenLogging #IllegalLogging #EndangeredSpecies #extinction #koalas #gliders #breaches #FCNSW #governance

Labor continues double-speak on forestry issues
"Amid talk of managing forestry and environmental conservation, Labor governments continue the destruction of forests across Australia."
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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/labor-continues-double-speak-on-forestry-issues,18770

Forest conversion and timber certification in the public plantation estate of NSW: Implications at the landscape and policy levels, (Tim Cadman et al., 2024)
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107179
#NativeForests #deforestation #NSWLogging #regulation #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #FCNSW #degradation #RemnantVegetation #conversion #ecosystem #conservation #Biodiversity #GlasgowDeclaration #ecology #ClimateAction #Law #governance #legitimacy #EUDR #SupplyChains #Australia #reputation

A 2020 NSW parliamentary inquiry found koalas would be extinct in the state by 2050 without urgent action.

"Governments continue to permit the clearing of koala habitat, including for native forest logging operations on the mid-north coast and in areas that have been promised for conservation in a proposed great koala national park."

“We’re in one of the most biodiverse, rich areas on this continent, but historical clearing has seriously degraded the area."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/03/koala-thief-leaves-claude-eastern-forest-nursery-lismore-nsw
#Koalas #LoggingImpacts #LandClearing #NSWForestry #MidNorthCoast #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #governance #biodiversity #extinction makers

Still logging Tuckers Nob, also known as the proposed Great Koala National Park

Dr. Tim Cadman is documenting how rainforest trees are cleared and original forest remnant are damaged by the state-owned Forestry Corporation of NSW. Week 11 of industrial logging within Tuckers Nob compartments 26-27 turning remnant vegetation into timber and electricity.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2djTDFsYjY

Surviving arboreal animals flee across busy roads and birds have gone silent. Industrial machinery leave huge puddles behind that supply the whole of Bellingen with Japanese encephalitis virus, Murray Valley encephalitis and Ross River virus. Gain for some, harm for others.

Mosquito borne diseases move in behind the loggers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/30/environment.climatechange
Deforestation and vector-borne disease: Forest conversion favors important mosquito vectors of human pathogens
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8290921/

#SaveTuckersNob #BreachWatch #TuckersNob26 #LoggingIndustry #FCNSW #LoggingImpacts #ForestConversion #NSWForestry #BellingenLogging #RemnantVegetation #rainforest #MosquitoBorneDiseases #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #electricity #koalas #VectorBorneDiseases #BellingenShire

Friends of Pine Creek
is "a group of citizens committed to protecting the natural and cultural values of Pine Creek State Forest on the mid north coast of NSW, Australia"

They are mourning the destruction of koalas habitat and biodiversity at the hands of their government. They have a very informative web presence:

"The ‘Forest Bridge’ proposal seeks to permanently conserve a critical corridor of public State Forest as a wildlife corridor west of Coffs Harbour on the Mid North coast of NSW. It offers a unique opportunity to permanently protect and complete an east/west corridor of conserved land stretching from the coastline at Bongil Bongil National Park westward to Point Lookout within New England National Park and beyond. In 2021 both Bongil Bongil National Park and Bindarri National Park were listed as Assets of Intergenerational Significance by the Minister for Energy and Environment, warranting them special protection."

"The gap between these two National Parks is currently occupied by small sections of Pine Creek State Forest and Tuckers Knob State Forest both under constant threat of destruction through high intensity logging. Parts of this country have already been clear-felled and bulldozed for monocultural Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis) plantations. Blackbutt is not a primary koala food tree."
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https://friendsofpinecreek.com/the-forest-bridge/
https://www.facebook.com/friendsofpinecreek
#NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #FOPC #SaveTuckersnob #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #koalas #MidNorthCoast #BiodiversityCrisis #climate #activism #governance #EcologicalGrief

End native forest logging in NSW!

"Native forest logging ended in Victoria on January 1. State-owned logging company VicForests will cease to exist from June 30 this year."

"VicForests' management of community forestry, including the harvesting of wind-thrown timber, ended on February 5, with the organisation citing the "risk of litigation" and "the cost it would burden the taxpayer with" as the reason for bringing its original June end date forward.
State-owned logging business VicForests, which has previously been found to have breached threatened species laws, will cease to exist from June 30 this year."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-13/state-owned-logging-company-vicforests-wind-up-date-revealed/103580736
#FCNSW #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #litigation #law #subsidies #ThreatenedSpecies #koalas #SaveTuckersnob #biodiversity #climate

The habitat of native animals and plants is being destroyed in Tuckers Nob SF. The bare timber raced along the Pacific highway today.

List of animals made homeless:
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/bellingen
#FCNSW #biodiversity #ClimateEmergency #ExtremeHeat #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #SaveTuckersnob #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BellingenLogging #koalas

The obligation of scientists to speak the truth for the common good:

Why the NSW Government’s ‘provisional’ Koala Park will not save koalas

"A precautionary approach would suspend all logging – now. "

"The current approach to maintaining those small areas of hardwood plantation in wood production will result in a ‘Swiss cheese’ park, full of holes, with isolated populations of koala incapable of moving across the landscape. The ‘Great Koala Park’ will become the Great Koala Ghetto. Clear-fall forestry, as prescribed for areas zoned plantation, is incompatible with sustainable koala populations."

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https://timcadman.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/why-the-nsw-governments-provisional-koala-park-will-not-save-koalas/
#TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #koalas #NSWForestry #DPI #governance #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #TuckersNob026027 #WidlifeCorridors #transparency #credibility #parrhesia #conservation #BiodiversityCrisis

A gift to the developers and loggers - Missing data in the government data management system

Missing rescue data casts doubts on effectiveness of policies to protect wildlife in NSW

"Four years of wildlife rescue data is missing from the New South Wales government's species tracking database BioNet, (The gateway to NSW biodiversity information) casting doubt over the accuracy of protection plans and development approvals.'

"A group of leading wildlife organisations estimates about 400,000 records of rescues are missing, including about 28,000 threatened species rescues."

"Analysis of BioNet data shows in some local government areas, wildlife rescue data hasn't been entered since mid-2019, despite being reported annually by dozens of wildlife rescue groups across the state."

"The absence of that data is a gift to the developers and may well have allowed the destruction of important habitat."...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-04/nsw-bionet-missing-four-years-wildlife-recue-data-/102805330

NSW BioNet The gateway to NSW biodiversity information.
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/biodiversity/nsw-bionet
#LoggingIndustry #logging #NSW #DB #BioNet #DataSparsity #ThreatenedSpecies #WIRES #biodiversity #Koalas #conservation #wildlife #EcologicalSurveys #CitizenScience