BellingenNSWMay 27, 2023
“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
More than 40,000 hectares of nationally vital koala habitat marked for potential logging in NSW

Analysis shows area includes 9,000 hectares where there was already active logging as pressure grows on government to end practice

The Guardian
BellingenNSWMay 22, 2023
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
Stop logging in the Great Koala National Park

A logged national park won’t save koalas from extinction.

BellingenNSWMay 18, 2023

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

BellingenNSW (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images Bellingen Update in two parts: Part 1/2 #Bellingen has been undergoing radical road widening and "Panic logging” for many months. A desperate attempt to convert narrow, windy and sloping forest roads into a wide and straight 'highway' to suit heavy road trains and extraction machinery. The new all-season road will enhance #deforestation and the flow of motorised tourists. It is said. The nexus #GlenifferRd and #RosesRoad and are being worked on most intensively with #Fossilfuel and a generous amount of a tar-like substance. On some roads the shoulders are shaved of all vegetation to widen it by 2-3 m on either side. This is supposed to convey the illusion that the road is very wide. On others, bulldozers push the 'dirt' and vegetation (and its habitants) down the 'ditch' (Bellinger River or small creeks) Decorative small sandbags are placed sparingly apparently as #SiltControl. The recent rain makes the slimy bare red soil run off, #erosion and #weeds will follow with a vengeance. This is fossil fuel landscaping at its finest. Matting or replanting seems not in sight. Weeds love this disturbed area. For road users and residents this intensification means detours, various traffic lights, diesel generators, heavy diesel machinery, blockages of the existing rural roads for months and months. Dump trucks and bulldozers add to the ambient #pollution of the air, soil, aquatic systems and living entities. Pt 2 https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/110388463643213945

Mastodon Australia
BellingenNSWMay 17, 2023

"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

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