![]() Guardian Australia revealed this week that the Perrottet government found native logging could be ended in NSW without costing the budget. “The NSW government has all of the tools and information that they need to end native forest logging now, at a very minimum they need to work with their federal colleagues to protect vital koala habitat from profitless logging.” ![]() “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. She said the Victorian government had set an example to follow. 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”. The analysis also references a 2017 report by the NSW environment department that identified “koala hubs” – significant areas of koala habitat – in the state and notes state governments had not acted since that time to protect these areas. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “These areas continue to be logged despite being identified as the most important koala habitat we know of,” he said. He said about 9,000 hectares of this were in areas where there was active logging. Pugh said 41,000 hectares of nationally important koala habitat was found in compartments identified for potential logging on the north coast, including areas of the proposed great koala national park and large areas of forest outside it such as Double Duke state forest. ![]() The threat status of koala populations in NSW and Queensland was upgraded to endangered in 2022 in recognition of the species’ continued decline due to land clearing and catastrophic bushfires. Pugh analysed a supplementary report to the national koala recovery plan that identified areas of habitat that were considered of national importance.
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