A koala census won\u2019t save our national treasure and a moratorium on the clearing of critical habitat is still urgently needed, the Greens say.
\nResponding to the Environment Minister\u2019s announcement today of a koala census to identify key habitat, Greens Environment Spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said:
\n\u201cA koala census won\u2019t save our national treasure from the Morrison Government.
\n\u201cKoalas have been counted in critical habitat areas only for the Government to ignore that data and approve mining and development projects that imperil the koalas calling that land home.
\n\u201cJust last month, the Environment Minister approved a quarry at Pt Stephens which will destroy 52ha of critical habitat for the endangered species.
\n\u201cUnless habitat clearing is stopped, koalas will soon be extinct.
\n\u201cThe Greens will move in the Parliament for a moratorium on habitat clearing to save the koala from extinction.
\n\u201cOff the back of the worst bushfires in history which killed a third of NSW\u2019s koala population and destroyed millions of hectares of habitat across the country, no approvals for developments on koala land should be given.
\n\u201cThe Morrison Government has had seven years to develop a recovery plan for the koala, a census isn\u2019t enough, the species needs real protection under our national environment laws.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s clear the government isn\u2019t serious about saving the koala and cannot be trusted to protect it with or without a census.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A koala census won\u2019t save our national treasure and a moratorium on the clearing of critical habitat is still urgently needed, the Greens say. Responding to the Environment Minister\u2019s announcement today of a koala census to identify key habitat, Greens Environment Spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: \u201cA koala census won\u2019t save our national treasure from … Continue reading “Counting koalas won\u2019t save national treasure”<\/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-9316","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\/9316","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=9316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}