Habitat destruction pushing koalas toward extinction
As the state governments and industries destroy the habitats, the coalas disappear – what will the next Australians say when they go? Sue Arnold Reports.
The ongoing exploitation of NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia can be defined as Koala genocide.
When Australia’s environmental history is written, what will be the reaction of the future Australians who learn how governments, political parties, companies, financial institutions and the mainstream media facilitate the destruction of colas? Will they ask why when this generation experiences the sixth size and witnesses? extinctionWas Australia’s unique, iconic coala sacrifice?
With re -election Albanian Government and Greens In the Senate, Koala will even survive in the future by keeping the balance of power. Despite a deep defect guess HE “Koalas will disappear until 2050”loved by the main stream media And politicians will be lucky to do so for the next decade, Considering the current situations.
Remembering in 2022, opposition leader Sussan LeyThen the Minister of Coalition Environment, announced NSW, in accordance with the provisions of Koalas and the law in Queensland Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Protection Law 1999 (EPBC Law). Both Queensland and NSW The state governments took time to raise the state lists of endangered species. add Koala.
Unfortunately, the list was only good for propaganda purposes. Protection of Habitats, Ending the Domestic Forest Diary, Blue Gum Plantation Harvesting, Mega Urbanization Projects, Fossil Fuel Research and Infrastructure Projects, “endangered“ The situation is a gloomy failure.
The facts speak for themselves.
Let’s start with NSW under labor premiere Chris Minns.
The concern for Koalas was at the highest level of all time. Black Summer Forest Firesapproximate 60,000 Coalas in the burnt areas of the country. Sussan Ley accepted excessive loss 8,000 Koalas is only on the mid -coast coast of NSW.
When the pre -worker selection promise To create in 2023 Big Koala National ParkThe Labor Party, which will provide the best chance of survival and development of a area of 300,000 hectares of domestic forests, received important votes supporting promises.
The non -existent park is the most prominent symbol of unsuccessful labor promises as they are increasingly converted into a skeleton because the corridors are lost and the corridors are lost and the corridors are lost.
NSW Forestry Corporation (FC) Taxpayers continue to cost millions of dollars. FC annual report It shows a loss of $ 29 million in the domestic parquet section published in December, almost twice twice the figure reported last year.
Accordingly Nature Conservation CouncilThis brings the total damage in the last four years to $ 73 million.
Professor David HeilpernOld Magistrate Judge and now Dean of Law Southern Cross UniversityTo kill words in it descriptive The prison of convicts in the state’s company and the violations in harvesting practices.
Heilper in question:
“If there were a group of bikie, they would be a criminal organization.
In a recent decision in NSW’s Land and Environmental Court, Justice Rachel Pepper company “Long recording of previous convictions for environmental crimes”.
Professor of Ecologist Anu, who is globally recognized David Linemayer clarifies opinion In FC:
“When you look at any perspective, this is really a criminal organization in terms of crimes against the environment, crimes against biological diversity, and crimes against the financial of the state.”
Transition to Queensland, LNP Premier David Crisafulli and NSW Premier Chris Minns Share a similar contempt for Koalas and living spaces.
Nevertheless find The federal government’s sub -committee, the 2032 Olympic Games in the Southeast Queensland only 7,752 Koalin will live in the wild nature, Cristafulli’s government allowed the Olympic development. bypass 15 legislation 1992 Nature Conservation Law.
Queensland protection group They are worried that development may include the cleansing of an important koala habitat. Toohey Forest – An important habitat for more than 400 domestic wildlife types and endangered coalas.
Yet Parliament Hansard Crisafulli from 2020, then a member of Broadwater, in question:
About four years have passed since the government has announced an expert panel … Finance and purchasing it for the protected areas decreased by 65 %. At that time, the government collected $ 36 million environmental offset from developers and did not spend a penny. Despite the collection of 36 million dollars, a hectare land was not purchased.
There is a study at the North Gold Coast. This study shows that if we continue to the existing orbit, the population of Koala cannot be sustained in twenty years and will not exist in forty years.
In the last twenty years, Koala numbers In Queensland, it decreased by almost 50% and continued to do so.
Victoria recently strengthened her role as Koalas’s most important predators. pull More than 1,000 Koal than helicopters in Budj Bim National Park.
. Raison d’être, According to the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate (Deeca) – In March, a forest fire had died of hunger, potentially burned and needed euthanasia. Deeca claimed The site could not be accessed and therefore air extraction was the only option.
Those who approve this worrying precedent are unknown or legal reasons. The helicopters and the marksmen went to the sky at least four weeks after the extinguishing of the fire. The entire incident was covered with secrecy, and only when local caregivers heard the shots and saw the helicopters flying into the park.
Deeca acknowledged that there was no space after three weeks of shooting. There was no information about how many female or how many meters of Pouch Young or Back Young may have been injured, because it was possible to shoot from binoculars and optics from only 30 meters.
The nearby blue gum plantation harvests have greatly worse the excessive population of the coalas in the park. Predictions Victoria shows that the number of coalas in blue gum plantations is between 40-50,000. Caregivers claim As a result of the harvest, it dies up to at least 50% and 100% of colas.
In victoria or southern Australia, uninterrupted non -status coalas have a minimal legal protection that allows the actions of persecution to be considered as “normal”.
A few carers told IA The pain experienced by Koalas, who was injured in blue gum harvesters:
We have many babies on their own. So if there is an event … Now there are great Hessian sacks. They are allowed to throw Koalas into the sack of Hessian, bind the sacks, throw them on their backs, leave them into the sacks and pour them into baskets.
They can sit on the site for hours and their backs, broken legs, drink, anyway. And they can only sit in these baskets for hours… Someone or someone comes and takes them into the veterinary clinic. And then in any of the veterinarian clinics, they can sit there for four to five hours before looking … No cares.
In Southern Australia, Koalas on the blue gum fields on Kangaroo Island is exposed to a fate similar to the Victorian coal. The former employees of a harvest company told about the efforts to save the wounded Koalas.
In accordance with with GuardianEmployees, injuries, broken skulls, jaws, arms and hips, he said.
Illness It is a great threat to the Koala population of South Australia. Adelaide University research show Very high levels of Koala (77%) retrovirus and 32% klamydia Koalas was tested. Supreme populations have high kidney disease and cancer is common.
Federal, a great relief met the appointment of the senator Larissa Waters As the leader of the greens. So far, there are words about protecting nature, but considering the crises faced by Koalas, ongoing survival should definitely be the most important priority.
Any focal point by the Minister of Environment Murray Watt Koala’s survival and the need for urgent protection from extinction are not possible considering the failure of the workers’ premiere, failure, persecution and rejection of the responsible governance against the environment.
Koala genocide?
Ongoing habitat destruction, diseases, loss of food and shelter, climate change effects, fires, droughts, floods, forests and government negligence is an excellent description for extinction.
Time is running out for Koalas.
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Sue Arnold is an IA columnist and free researcher journalist. You can follow Sue on Twitter @Koalacrisis.
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