“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

Bellingen Update in two parts:
Part 2/2
The increased human encroachment on living beings 'out there' in the bush consitutes an existential threat. The vehicular disturbance of noise, light and vibrations from vehicles causes stress and alters their behaviour. Road noise and/or vibration is believed to disrupt communication in birds. Motor noise is audible over 200m penetrating the environment. Species adjacent to roads flee the area.
The fragmentation of their home or loss of habitat can put yet another species on the extinction list. Survivors have a bigger chance to get under someone's wheels as #roadkill.

The once closed canopy above some roads gave the koalas some connectivity. The new widening does not provide any canopy bridges. A good way to undo the NSW #koala strategy.

In #Bellingen town the many logging trucks and heavy machinery shooting through the blissful latte strip of #HydeSt. go unnoticed. The surrounding #forests with their inhabitants are perceived as mere material for economic #Exploitation. #Deforestation, #BiodiversityLoss, #Extinctions and #Climate disruption are not yet on/at the level of the military dictatorships of the Amazon or Myanmar, but one has to keep up with the neighbours.

The Sisyphus 'highway to hell' is paving the way to go past the 1.5C threshold. 'Upgraded' roads speed up the destruction and extraction. A hotter, dryer climate will invite more mega #fires. It's the fast-track towards extinction.

Pt 1
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/110388410575056761

#BellingenLogging #PanicLogging #River #care #NorthBankRoad #BellingenShireCouncil #NoFootpaths ##NoBikePaths #Mobility #Bushfires #GKNP #Biodiversity #Runoff #Platypus #BellingerRiverSnappingTurtle

"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