Great Koala National Park – Page 9 – National Parks Association of NSW

NPA welcomes Government’s recognition of the importance of nature to regional NSW and calls for forests to be protected as a key pillar

Posted by NPA NSWon June 26, 2018June 28, 2018in Media ReleasesLeave a comment

The National Parks Association of NSW (NPA) has welcomed Sunday’s announcement by Minister for Tourism, Adam Marshall, to develop a nature-based tourism strategy to ‘unlock NSW’s multi-billion dollar backyard’, and calls on the Government to heed NPA’s Forests For All strategy to exit native forest logging on public land and use the forests to promote nature conservation to underpin nature-based tourism.

NPA WELCOMES NSW LABOR’S RENEWED COMMITMENT TO THE GREAT KOALA NATIONAL PARK

Posted by NPA NSWon June 22, 2018in Media ReleasesLeave a comment

The National Parks Association of NSW (NPA) has welcomed the renewed commitments around protecting koalas and establishing the Great Koala National Park made by Opposition Leader Luke Foley.

Regional Forest Agreements

Posted by NPA NSWon June 1, 2018May 31, 2018in Campaigns and Conservation, Native Forest Logging, Nature NSW, Winter 2018Leave a comment

Strange times for NPA and the NSW public!

^{Oisin Sweeney, Senior Ecologist, National Parks Association of NSW}

Members and supporters have received several emails from NPA over the last couple of months on the subject of native forest logging on public land and the laws that permit it: Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs). A lot has happened recently, so it’s a good time for an update. Let’s start at the beginning.

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Government recognises importance of protecting koala habitat, but strategy short on detail and overshadowed by deforestation

Posted by NPA NSWon May 7, 2018in Campaigns and Conservation, Media ReleasesLeave a comment

The National Parks Association of NSW Inc (NPA) commends Government recognition of the threats to koala habitat and the key role of national parks in species conservation, but fears the new koala strategy will prove inadequate and a waste of money under current policy settings.

Logs free to be removed from koala habitat in the Great Koala National Park as 30-day blockade broken up by police

Posted by NPA NSWon March 14, 2018in Great Koala National Park, Media ReleasesLeave a comment

A blockade to prevent logs from being removed from known high value koala habitat in Gladstone State Forest, near Bellingen, was yesterday broken up by police.

Pollution of Gladstone State Forest reported to EPA

Posted by NPA NSWon March 7, 2018March 7, 2018in Campaigns and Conservation, Native Forest LoggingLeave a comment

Community representatives from the Bellingen Environment Centre have made a pollution line incident report of pollution occurring yesterday in Woods Creek in Gladstone State Forest following recent logging and heavy rainfall.