Article: QLD: Proposed koala protections slammed as a stunt


AAP General News (Australia)
08-05-2008
QLD: Proposed koala protections slammed as a stunt

By Gabrielle Dunlevy

BRISBANE, Aug 5 AAP - Proposed new laws to protect southeast Queensland's vanishing
koala population, which could include limits on dogs, have been condemned as worthless
by conservationists.

The state government today released a report showing the rapidly developing region's
koala population could be gone within 20 years.

The survey by consultants GHD for the Environmental Protection Agency and Moreton Bay
Regional Council showed the urban koala population in that area had declined 46 per cent
over the past six years.

A task force will now look at drastic measures ...

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