Cats, dogs, cars, wildfires and errant greens are all to blame here. If only the errant greens would stop trying to prevent feral reduction in our native forest by responsible, organised hunters?

Or act to stop the (regular) cull of hundreds of healthy koalas on Kangaroo Island! Which instead, could have been HUMANELY captured, tranquilized and shipped elsewhere, where previous populations have been decimated!

Their lock it up and leave approach in "OUR" national parks have had disastrous consequences for threatened species, very nearly wiped out by the subsequent (guaranteed disaster in prospect) bush fires that resulted, when formerly grazed forest is locked and left!

Yes, there's a case to be made on multiple grounds eliminating any and all clear felling of native forests, but not a single one, with regard to carefully managed selective logging!

Selective logging/summer grazing created publicly accessible fire trails, reduced fuel loads relatively safely and put sharp eyes, where they were permanently needed!

Now, Koalas have to take there own chances with feral cats, wild dogs and wild fires! All of which are far more dangerous than what we allowed in OUR forests previously!

Yes, hunting/culling of Koalas should be completely banned! And someone needs to ensure feral cats wild dogs and as always, errant greens get that message!
Alan B.

Don't the environmental mitigation measures include bridges so the koalas can get across the road safely?

If not, why not?

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Alan B, having more koalas moved there won't help them in the long term. The limiting factor is koala habitat.

Yes Adian and clear felled forests don't provide more of it! Whereas, we could oblige loggers to plant a least two same species trees, wherever one is felled!

Selective logging halves the number of trees felled and doubles the jobs! And leaving Islands of old growth trees connected by corridors is the way to ensure the native fauna have their special interest protected!

Koala bridges are a good idea as are fenced roadways.

We have large swathes of native forests near here that used to have a large permenant colony that has been decimated by chlamydia; plus feral cats and wild dogs!

Removing the infected animals is the only way to protect the colony, which could then have its numbers boosted from disease free colonies like that on over populated Kangaroo Island!?

Similarly, we routinely shoot/cull the alpha males and females of the last of the world's purebred Asian wolves (dingoes) because half baked environmentalists (greens) thought it'd be a good idea to kill off the wild horse population on Fraser Island?

If new seedlings needed protection, surely fences ought to have been trialed first? Or nurseries followed by temporary fencing?

Moreover, rounding up the horses and giving some of them to kids wanting ponies? And what was wrong with residents on Fraser leaving a few bowls of dog biscuits out for, starved to the point of extinction, animals? Would have been preferable to this wanton slaughter/cruel extermination?

Now we have kids routinely threatened by dogs made mad with starvation! Environmentalists?

Now they want to lock up three time more of the Coral sea and Great Barrier reef to protect our oceans from so called over fishing? What's is the point of that, if we already have far too few patrol boats to police those waters? And just as mad as creating national parks with no rangers in them to ensure the planned "HUMANE" reduction of feral (flora and fauna) species

What fish, dingoes and threatened Koalas need are pragmatic rationalists, not control freaks or thrill kill exterminators, masquerading as responsible native environment managers!
Alan B.

If Qld is about to claim Barrier Reef-destruction and tree-clearing victory then maybe NSW will do it with koalas.

Road signs advise citizens to "Report koalas any time on 1300 465 326 ." This may be ASIO or Centrelink Fraud line , who knows. Metadata collection is already a menace.