Logging is continuing in NSW forest north-west of Coffs Harbour in bushland that is proposed for the Great Koala national park.
Photograph: International Fund For Animal Welfare
The New South Wales
Forestry Corporation has continued to log unburnt forest that is
habitat for some of the most imperilled species in the aftermath of the
state’s bushfire crisis.
Logging operations have continued in the Styx River state forest on
the north coast that is now remnant habitat for endangered species
including the greater glider and the Hastings River mouse.
Both the federal and state
governments have identified the mouse, which had 82% of its habitat
burnt, as one of the species most at risk of extinction as a result of
the bushfire disaster.
Trucks have also moved into an area of the Lower Bucca state forest
north-west of Coffs Harbour in bushland that is part of the proposed
Great Koala national park.
Twenty-four per cent of koala habitat in eastern NSW was burnt in the
fire crisis and the environment minister, Sussan Ley, has said up to 30% of the koala population on the mid north coast may have been killed.
Environment groups and the independent state MLC Justin Field have
expressed dismay that NSW Forestry Corporation has been able to continue
with harvest plans in unburnt forest that is now important remnant
habitat for wildlife.
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