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Boundaries have been drawn for a long-awaited national park in Australia, where koalas and other threatened species will be protected.
At 467,000 hectares, the Great Koala national park will be the largest protected area in the state of New South Wales. The site is home to an estimated 12,000 koalas, which the Australian government classified as endangered in 2022 following significant population declines due to habitat loss. It’s hoped that the new park will help the species recover.
“The creation of the Great Koala national park is one of the most significant conservation achievements in decades, made possible through the persistence of communities and advocacy groups who refused to give up,” said the charity Friends of the Koala.
Logging has already been banned within the limits, a move criticized by the logging industry, which said that around 300 jobs will be affected.
“The creation of the park will generate around 100 new positions,” said Friends of the Koala, “along with additional opportunities in tourism, conservation, and Indigenous-led land management.”
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