Last year the NSW Government announced their plans to double koala populations in the state by 2050. What’s the deal with the new land clearing laws in NSW? And the Forestry Corporation of NSW has already recommenced logging bushfire affected areas. It was found that 30% of koala habitat was destroyed in the recent bushfires in NSW alone. In just the last few years, koalas have been heavily impacted by the drought and bushfire season of 2019/20, as well as legislation changes to land clearing laws. 600,000 koalas were culled during this time! Thankfully, this practice was banned in the 1920s and koalas were instead introduced to a whole new raft of threats with the post-war population expansion. They were almost hunted to extinction by colonisers in the 19th and 20th centuries when governments announced ‘open season’ on them for their fur.
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