Video Report: Why is NSW Still Logging the Great Koala National Park?

The Australia Institute’s new on-the-ground investigation into the logging of the promised Great Koala National Park from Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor Stephen Long.

In this new report, We speak to the people on the ground fighting to save the last refuges of some of Australia’s most iconic wildlife, and uncovered the convoluted reasons why NSW is still logging native forest.

The Great Koala National Park, an election commitment from the NSW Labor Government over a decade ago, is meant to protect forests that are home to nearly one in five of the state’s wild koalas.

But the NSW government is yet to set a date for the park and is allowing native forest logging within the proposed park boundaries to continue ravaging critical habitat for the endangered greater glider and koala. The NSW Government plans to monetise the Great Koala National Park through the use of carbon credits.

As this new report explains, this push for carbon credits is creating a perverse incentive to continue logging.

This video report is presented by Stephen Long, Senior Fellow, and Contributing Editor at the Australia Institute on Gumbaynggirr land. Filmed and edited by Yasmine Wright Gittins, Anne Kantor Fellow at the Australia Institute.

Featuring:
+ Mark Graham, Ecologist
+ Meredith Stanton, Environmentalist
+ Uncle Micklo Jarrett, Gumbaynggirr man