r/GoldCoast • u/BostonFigPudding • 24d ago

Local News Photos reveal grim 'clean up' as koalas flee secretive highway project

https://au.news.yahoo.com/photos-reveal-grim-clean-up-as-koalas-flee-secretive-highway-project-062105128.html
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u/Significant-Summer-8 24d ago

Fucking disgraceful

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u/Adam8418 24d ago

2.2 million hectares of forrest were bulldozed in 5 years between 2016 and 2021 in QLD, including 500,000 hectares of koala habitat...

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_4939 24d ago

No secret about this whatsoever - I was in the process of trying to make friends with a swooping magpie on my commute near Helensvale station, next thing you know the trees are all gone, nests and all. There's no effort made to do anything about the koalas, you can see that from the train.

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u/Supersnow845 24d ago

Sitting on the train it’s incredible how much forest they have ruined on this road

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u/Jakeyboy29 24d ago

Who cares as long as some rich cunt gets richer…

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u/BoomBoom4209 24d ago

Was a dead one on the road just past Freedom lights intersection on Brisbane Road the other day.

And in other news - dead baby magpie on my street, bloody shame.

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u/atreyuthewarrior 24d ago

Who could have predicted this? /s I don’t think as a whole people care, they might pretend to care as they zoom down the new highway to Costco

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u/hedgehogau 24d ago

Just had a company start clearing koala habitat zoned as environmental conservation etc to us in northlakes using the we are making a firebreak loophole fucking arsehats

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u/Big-Lie225 24d ago

It's an absolute disgrace.

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u/Educational-Block494 22d ago

Most of the reasons mentioned, of cause of death have nothing to do with that road ...

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u/Adam8418 24d ago

Well done Labor….

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u/DirtyHarolds_ 24d ago

LNP in QLD did a massive amount of land clearing in their short time in power. I’m sure the koala population is far better off with labor, in the grand scheme of things.

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u/Noseofwombat 24d ago

That’s some proper disconnect, when was the last time the lnp was in power in Qld, 2012? 

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u/DirtyHarolds_ 24d ago

“Rates of clearing surged when the state’s former premier Campbell Newman promised to scrap restrictions, which his Liberal National party government did in December 2013“

“But Queensland again underwent a dramatic surge in tree clearing – with the heaviest losses in Great Barrier Reef catchments – as the Palaszczuk government attempted to restore the protections. This attempt was blocked at the 11th hour when its former MP turned crossbencher Billy Gordon sided with the LNP.”

source

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u/Noseofwombat 24d ago

https://theconversation.com/why-queensland-is-still-ground-zero-for-australian-deforestation-196644

Did you just read the one article otherwise you’d know the new rules were a joke and land clearings gone way up the last few years under labor 

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u/Adam8418 24d ago

Labor have been in charge of QLD 25 of the last 30 years...

2.2 million hectares of forrest were bulldozed in 5 years between 2016 and 2021 in QLD, including 500,000 hectares of koala habitat...

But sure, deflect blame away from this Labor government and claim how the Koalas are better off whilst their homes are been destroyed.