Conservation council calls for logging moratorium in proposed Great Koala National Park
ABCConservation groups say NSW Labor's election promise to establish the Great Koala National Park is being undermined by plans to continue timber harvesting. Key points: Conservation groups say timber harvesting operations have ramped up in important koala habitat The Forestry Corporation of NSW says harvesting hasn't increased on the state's north coast The Nature Conservation Council says continued logging will drive further koala population decline They are calling for an immediate moratorium on logging in the proposed park. Nature Conservation Council chief executive Jacqui Mumford said continued harvesting within the area would lead to a further decline of the koala population while the Minns government reviewed plans to establish the park. In a statement, a forestry corporation spokesperson said the conservation council's figures were inaccurate and there hadn't been an increase in logging across the north coast. "
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