The Great Koala National Park (GKNP) has been announced, a historic victory for 12,000 koalas and more than 100 threatened species. The NSW Government committed to transferring 176,000 hectares of State Forest into the national park estate.
But the park has still not been formally legislated, leaving its long-term protection uncertain. And Forestry Corporation continues to log other critical native forests across NSW, with repeated breaches of environmental laws exposed only by vigilant local communities and conservation groups.
This is a moment of hard-won progress, and exactly when sustained pressure matters most.
Greater gliders, gang-gang cockatoos, powerful owls and yellow-bellied gliders will lose their remaining habitat. Ancient hollow-bearing trees that take centuries to grow are being logged without oversight.
Greater gliders, gang-gang cockatoos, powerful owls and yellow-bellied gliders will lose their remaining habitat. Ancient hollow-bearing trees that take centuries to grow are being logged without oversight.
Intact native forests buffer our climate. Their removal accelerates the very conditions that fuel catastrophic fires and prolonged drought.
Native forest logging has lost more than $90 million in three years and has no social license — yet continues to be subsidised by public money.
As we delay ending logging, our forests grow less resilient to the changing climate — each year of delay compounds the ecological damage.
After more than a decade of campaigning, the NSW Government announced the GKNP — reserving 176,000 hectares and protecting habitat for koalas and over 100 threatened species. But a moratorium is not a law. Until legislation passes, the park is a promise, not a protection. We must make sure it becomes reality.
At 1,100 metres on the Great Eastern Escarpment, Glenbog State Forest is one of NSW’s last high-elevation climate refugias — home to hundreds of threatened species. Forestry Corporation wants to woodchip it. Logging has already begun. Community pressure has pushed back the timeline. Now we need to stop it for good.
Logging is scheduled to begin in June. Tell your NSW MP to intervene before machines return to this irreplaceable forest.
Tell Premier Chris Minns to stop funding destruction and end native forest logging and deliver the Great Koala National Park in full.
Logging is scheduled to begin in June. Tell your NSW MP to intervene before machines return to this irreplaceable forest.
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