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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/12/nsw-logging-cease-stops-koala-national-park-106-hubs>
"Logging in high value koala habitat on the New South Wales mid-north coast
will cease immediately while the state government consults experts about plans
to establish a great koala national park.
The announcement follows weeks of pressure from communities that had accused
the Minns government of stalling on an election promise and allowing forestry
operations to continue in areas that had been earmarked for the proposed park.
The environment minister, Penny Sharpe, said the government had suspended
logging operations in 106 “koala hubs” – areas of important habitat the NSW
environment department identified in 2017 but which no government has acted to
protect.
Sharpe said there had been no logging operations in these areas since 1
September after the government reached an agreement with the NSW Forestry
Corporation.
The hubs cover about 5% of the 176,000 ha of forest that the government will
assess for potential protection within a great koala national park but the
government said they contain 42% of the recorded koala sightings in state
forests in the assessment area since 2000.
The decision has been cautiously welcomed by conservation groups but the
National Parks Association of NSW urged the government to go further and impose
a logging suspension across the entire area of the proposed park."
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-abortion-mexico-vaccine-indonesia-conservation-alaska/>
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