In response to the NSW Government’s\u00a0new koala state environmental planning policy,\u00a0Greens Spokesperson for the Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said:
\n\u201cLetting the National Party dictate koala protection policy is like putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
\n\u201cThe Berejiklian Government\u2019s capitulation to the Nationals will drive koalas closer to extinction. Koalas are already on track to be extinct in NSW by 2050.
\n\u201cLand clearing, degradation and fragmentation is the greatest threat to koalas. It must be stopped.
\n\u201cInstead the NSW Government is planning to make it easier to bulldoze and log trees on forestry and agricultural land where most habitat destruction occurs. It\u2019s completely nonsensical.
\n\u201cThe Australian Greens Save the Koala Bill would stop land clearing of critical habitat and help save our national treasure.
\n\u201cThe new laws were debated in the Senate last month and referred to a Senate Inquiry.
\n\u201cIf passed, these laws would prevent the Federal Environment Minister from approving new mines or developments in koala habitat.
\n\u201cRight now, the Liberal and National Parties are failing to protect our precious wildlife. Off the back of the worst bushfires in history, no approvals for developments or logging on koala land should be given – not by NSW or the Morrison Government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In response to the NSW Government’s\u00a0new koala state environmental planning policy,\u00a0Greens Spokesperson for the Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: \u201cLetting the National Party dictate koala protection policy is like putting the fox in charge of the hen house. \u201cThe Berejiklian Government\u2019s capitulation to the Nationals will drive koalas closer to extinction. Koalas are already on … Continue reading “Australian Greens Save the Koala Bill more important than ever after NSW Govt\u2019s capitulation to National Party”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}