Plans to protect koalas are taking years to be approved.
In the Wollondilly Shire, south west of Sydney, council staff started working with state government agencies on koala protection in 2016."Right now we're faced with this really difficult situation where we're seeing pockets of development occurring over the top of really important koala corridors," he said.
The Byron Shire Council, on the New South Wales north coast, submitted its plan for coastal koala colonies in 2016, but it is yet to be approved."There was a large body of work in this," he said. "There were some issues that came up from the department's end towards the finalisation of our plan, including the decision to commence review of the State Environmental Planning Policy .Koala ecologist Steve Phillips, who has worked in the field for several councils as they formulate their management plans, said they were being stalled while definitions of habitat were debated.
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