Koala Woman Says

This population is under immense pressure from the expansion of the Gold Coast. With the huge Pimpama development the Queensland Government has set a shocking precedent – a first for Queensland – of removing koalas from development sites to other areas and we know this has bad outcomes for Koalas, with a 20% survival rate on average. Now they want to do it in other places. And guess what? Now you don’t have to find offsets or suitable habitat, “research” will do instead. How heartbreaking it must be for these researchers to gradually, inexorably watch the demise of “their” Koalas.

There are Koalas at Helensvale and Coombabah, and a few at East Coomera, but very few sightings in the last five years. So, with the Pimpana Koalas gone, we may as well say that Koalas are close to extinction in yet another south east Queensland electorate.

Will he Act or Axe?