Add your name to call for permanent protection for koalas

Add your name to call for permanent protection for koalas

Support the campaign work needed to protect these forests

Support the campaign work needed to protect these forests

Old Growth Forests Need Our Help

Old Growth Forests Need Our Help

Protect the Richmond River Koala Parks

The largest stronghold of koalas in the Richmond catchment is under threat.

Help stop their homes from being logged and help protect them in National Parks before it's too late! These koalas are genetically distinct from those in the Great Koala National Park.

Join in calling for 56,200 hectares of public native forests in the southern Richmond River valley and Richmond Range (south of the Bruxner Highway) to be made into national parks.

 

Richmond River Koala Parks Map

 

A Last Chance for Koalas and so Much More!

Protecting the Richmond River Koala Parks will help:

  • give Koalas in the Banyabba Area of Regional Koala Significance (ARKS), a genetically distinct population from those in the Great Koala National Park, a chance to recover from past logging and the recent wildfires
  • protect the most extensive ‘Nationally Important Koala Area’ in the Richmond catchment
  • restore the health of the Richmond River by improving water quality, increasing dry season flows and reducing storm runoff
  • protect a biodiversity hotspot, including habitats of 132 threatened species (4 Critically Endangered, 39 Endangered, and 89 Vulnerable) threatened with extinction
  • establish a refuge for a variety of threatened woodland and dry forest animals, along with a suite of endemic plants
  • provide and restore essential tree hollows for 22 threatened species, including Barking Owl, Brush-tailed Phascogale, Squirrel Glider and Yellow-bellied Glider, and mature nectar feed trees for these gliders 
  • provide a crucial winter refuge for migratory and nomadic nectar-feeding species, including flying foxes and the Critically Endangered Swift Parrot and Regent Honeyeater
  • link existing National Parks and fragmented animal populations into one continuous protected sanctuary
  • protect 35,000 ha of forest ecosystems inadequately reserved under national forest reserve targets
  • satisfy our international commitments to protect 30% of this bioregion by 2030
  • address climate change as the recovering forests draw down and store millions of tonnes of CO₂ through natural forest growth
  • reduce fire frequency and intensity by allowing forests to regain their natural resilience
  • protect this region’s most important climate change corridor from Bundjalung National Park on the coast, up the Richmond Range, to the Border Ranges National Park

What’s at Risk?

  • Koalas in the Banyabba Area of Regional Koala Significance (ARKS) likely lost half their population in the 2019/20 wildfires. 86% of these State Forests were burnt. The Koalas are slowly recovering. These forests need time to heal.
  • Instead core Koala habitats are now being targeted for logging, the Forestry Corporation logging most of their preferred feed trees.

We can save Koalas, and many other species, from extinction, by protecting these forests and allowing their populations to grow.

Please help by promoting this proposal.

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Save Our Koalas - Create the Richmond River Koala Parks

Save Our Koalas — Create the Richmond River Koala Parks 

Right now, over 56,000 hectares of public native forest in the Richmond Valley and southern Richmond Range are still being logged — even though they’re home to nationally important Koala habitat and more than 130 threatened species.

These forests were devastated in the Black Summer fires, and logging is now stopping them from recovering.

We’re calling on the NSW Government to end native forest logging and create the Richmond River Koala Parks — a new National Park to protect 56,200 hectares of forest for Koalas, wildlife, climate, and future generations.

Add your name to help protect our forests and save our Koalas.

 

To the President and Members of the Legislative Council of NSW

That this House notes that:

  1. Over 56,000 hectares of public native forest in the southern Richmond Range and Richmond River valley are still being logged—despite being home to nationally significant Koala habitat, including 28,000 ha identified by the Australian Government as Nationally Important Koala Areas.
  2. These forests support over 130 threatened species, including 4 Critically Endangered, 39 Endangered, and 89 Vulnerable species. 
  3. The area forms part of a nationally significant climate corridor, stretching from sea level to the Border Ranges, and plays a critical role in carbon storage and climate resilience.

Following severe damage in the 2019–20 bushfires—when over 80% of these forests burned—continued logging is threatening the recovery of Koalas and other wildlife, degrading habitat, and fueling ecosystem collapse.

 

That this House calls on the Government to:

  1. Immediately halt native forest loggingwithin the proposed Northern Rivers Koala Park to protect core Koala habitat and allow natural regeneration.
  2. Create a new National Parkto permanently protect the 56,200 hectares of State Forests in the Richmond Valley and southern Richmond Range.
  3. Ensure these forests are managed for biodiversity conservation, bushfire resilience, and carbon drawdown, contributing to state and national climate targets.
  4. Strengthen conservation laws and planning rulesto prevent further destruction of critical threatened species habitat and ensure long-term ecological resilience.

 

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