It’s been two years since the national bushfire crisis which killed or displaced 3 billion animals. 
 
There are warnings koala populations could become extinct by 2050. 
 
Federal Labor put in place the National Koala Conservation and Management Strategy, which expired in 2014. The Morrison-Joyce Government never bothered to renew it. 
 
A recovery plan was recommended for the koala in 2012. A decade later and it hasn’t been released. 
 
In this time, the koala’s conservation status has changed from “vulnerable” to “endangered”. 
 
Future generations of Australians shouldn’t have to learn about the koala in a history book.
 
With no recovery plan, and no conservation strategy, this government is failing Australia’s most iconic species. 


TUESDAY, 15 MARCH 2022