More than half-a-million hectares is proposed for conservation after south-east Queensland's koala population declined by up to 80 per cent in 20 years.
Coomera Conservation Group spokesperson Karina Waterman said they had waited four years for a strategy, but her first impression was"cautiously optimistic".
"The koalas in those areas, those pockets, they're under a lot of pressure and they're the ones we see hit by cars, attacked by dogs. We see disease really flourish.""Some of the land has been degraded by previous clearing," she said.
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