MEDIA RELEASE 11 December 2025

In her media release of 11 December 2025 Environment Minister Penny Sharpe states

The NSW Government has completed its first comprehensive statewide koala survey, providing the most accurate picture to date of where koalas live and how populations are distributed across the state.

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Populations in NSW continue to face significant risks, including habitat loss and fragmentation, climate impacts, disease and vehicle strikes. These threats are expected to intensify over coming decades, underscoring the importance of protecting key habitat and wildlife corridors.

Now that the NSW Government has undertaken new modelling that identifies key koala habitat, they need to stop logging it and ensure it is protected from clearing, according to North East Forest Alliance spokesperson Dailan Pugh.

Logged preferred Koala feed trees in key koala habitat in Braemar SF