#paniclogging — Public Fediverse posts

“Koalas are listed as threatened with extinction at both the state and federal level and without intervention will be extinct in NSW by 2050”
But
“Forest areas that include 41,000 hectares of nationally important koala habitat have been identified for potential logging on the north coast of New South Wales in the region’s 12-month logging plan”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/28/more-than-40000-hectares-of-nationally-vital-koala-habitat-marked-for-potential-logging-in-nsw
#Koalas #Logging #Biodiversity #NativeForests #NorthCoast #Roads #PanicLogging #NSW #GKNP #ZeroNewExtinctions #Extinction makers

Stop logging in the Great Koala National Park
"17% of state forests planned for the Great #Koala National Park could be logged in the next 12 months. Of the 175,000ha of #StateForests that constitutes the GKNP proposal (green) Forestry Corporation NSW plans to log over 17% in the next 12 months (red), including some of the most important koala habitat in NSW (white). Your taxes are being spent to pay for it."
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https://koalapark.nature.org.au/
#Bellingen #Roads #Trucks #BellingenLogging #CoffsHarbour #Sawtell #GKNP #PanicLogging #Biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis

"Panic logging” occurs across parts of the proposed proposed koala park."
"NSW’s proposed Great #Koala National Park (GKNP) is set to house around 20 per cent of the state’s dwindling koala population, but conservationists fear hundreds of hectares could be harvested by loggers before they are protected."

"Local ecologist Mark Graham believes hundreds of hectares of core koala habitat have recently been lost to “industrial logging. Operations have been so intensive and extensive that the forest cover has been effectively removed and destroyed.

Dr Timothy Cadman said "his research indicates the #NorthCoast “wood basket” is being “rapidly emptied". If it continues, by the time we get the (#GKNP) declared, it won't be koala habitat. The minister can stop all this with a stroke of a pen and just suspend the #logging.”
"A NSW parliamentary inquiry found #koalas will likely be extinct in NSW by 2050"

https://au.news.yahoo.com/fears-aussie-state-will-panic-log-planned-koala-park-071744691.html
#NSW #NorthCoast #StateForest #PanicLogging #BellingenLogging #Extinction makers #Bellingen #WoodBasket or #Biodiversity