NSW’s koala national park will protect threatened species and cap logging across the state. Could the Greens really block it? | Adam Morton
The Albanese government approved a proposal allowing the park to create carbon credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars, sparking a schism among environmentalists What qualifies as a win in environmental campaigning? Is it when a huge forest area that is home to a stack of threatened species, including koalas, and has been the focus of years and years of campaigning, is protected from…
The Albanese government has approved a proposal allowing a koala national park to generate carbon credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars. This decision has sparked controversy among environmentalists and activists. The Greens party in Australia is debating whether to support a motion to block this plan, which could significantly reduce native forest logging in New South Wales.
The park is expected to protect over 12,000 koalas, water catchments, and carbon stores. However, critics argue that the credits generated will not represent real emissions reductions and that taxpayers should pay for the initiative instead. Supporters of the park, however, argue that it is important to protect nature for its intrinsic values and that the plan includes measures to reduce native forest logging, such as capping logging levels below average.
Despite these arguments, the issue has not received much attention in the national political debate thus far.
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