An Australian state promised to turn native forest into a national koala park. It’s still being logged

Mongabay
Feb 26, 2025, 6:25 pm100 ptsTrending
The koala was officially declared endangered in the Australian state of New South Wales in February 2022. A year later, the Labor Party promised to create a 315,000-hectare (778,000-acre) Great Koala National Park to protect the iconic species in the state from extinction. Labor went on to win the state…

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