Pressure is mounting on Premier Chris Minns to immediately end logging inside the boundaries of the proposed Great Koala National Park.
Pressure is mounting on the NSW government to end its logging of the proposed Great Koala National Park at once as all five lower house independent MPs implore Premier Chris Minns to fast-track creation of the park.during the past three elections but shared community concerns that the park had still not been declared 20 months after Labor gained government, and that logging by the government-owned Forestry Corporation inside its proposed boundaries had intensified.
“We understand that Forestry Corporation is continuing to plan for logging inside the proposed park boundaries and may be about to commence logging in some coups not currently being logged.“This activity is a real threat to the integrity of the park. Once old trees are gone, these logged forests will take decades to recover, if they ever do.
“There is a clear public interest case to conserve these forests for current and future generations as well as for carbon storage. We all have a stake in this, but only your government has the power to make it happen.”A government spokesperson said it remained committed to the park and to a sustainable timber industry and that the assessment process was continuing.
Independent MPs in the upper house signed a similar letter, supporting their colleagues and calling on the premier to immediately end logging inside the assessment area for the park, and end logging inside public native forests by March.
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