"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