2025 Rescue Plan for Koalas in Sydney Basin

Sydney Basin Koala Network’s 2025 annual progress report gives the NSW Government a fail for its slow to no progress on crucial corridors and legislative reform for koalas. Our report, with key contributions from the Environmental Defenders Office and expert ecologists Biolink finds:

Record koala deaths on the roads of South-West Sydney

Damaging development occurring before measures to protect Koalas leading to their demise

Refusal to intervene to save a vital 116ha Koala corridor in Campbelltown, despite our research showing up to 60% of the last Koala generation being struck by vehicles in this LGA.

No follow through with ...

Sydney Basin Koala Network’s 2025 annual progress report gives the NSW Government a fail for its slow to no progress on crucial corridors and legislative reform for koalas. Our report, with key contributions from the Environmental Defenders Office and expert ecologists Biolink finds:

Record koala deaths on the roads of South-West Sydney

Damaging development occurring before measures to protect Koalas leading to their demise

Refusal to intervene to save a vital 116ha Koala corridor in Campbelltown, despite our research showing up to 60% of the last Koala generation being struck by vehicles in this LGA.

No follow through with announced enhancements to the CPCP with planning proposals being approved without following mitigation guidelines.

Properties within the new Georges River Koala National Park footprint trading on the open market.

No changes made to the flailing Koala Strategy, the Koala SEPPs, the BC Act or the LLS Act.

Our koalas in the Sydney Basin are at crisis point but with growing community support, we can further ramp up our campaign. Please find your local MP, add your thoughts to make it personal, urging action to save Koala populations in the Sydney Basin.

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Ask your local MP to Save Sydney Basin Koalas

Sydney Basin Koala Network’s 2025 annual progress report gives the NSW Government a fail for its slow to no progress on crucial corridors and legislative reform for koalas. Our report, with key contributions from the Environmental Defenders Office and expert ecologists Biolink finds:

Record koala deaths on the roads of South-West Sydney
Damaging development occurring before measures to protect Koalas leading to their demise
Refusal to intervene to save a vital 116ha Koala corridor in Campbelltown, despite our research showing up to 60% of the last Koala generation being struck by vehicles in this LGA.
No follow through with announced enhancements to the CPCP with planning proposals being approved without following mitigation guidelines.
Properties within the new Georges River Koala National Park footprint trading on the open market.
No changes made to the flailing Koala Strategy, the Koala SEPPs, the BC Act or the LLS Act.

Our koalas in the Sydney Basin are at crisis point but with growing community support, we can further ramp up our campaign. Please find your local MP, add your thoughts to make it personal, urging action to save Koala populations in the Sydney Basin.

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Sydney Basin Koala Network’s 2025 annual progress report gives the NSW Government a fail for its slow to no progress on crucial corridors and legislative reform for koalas. The report finds:

- Record koala deaths on the roads of South-West Sydney
- Damaging development occurring before measures to protect Koalas leading to their demise
- Refusal to intervene to save a vital 116ha Koala corridor in Campbelltown, despite our research showing up to 60% of the last Koala generation being struck by vehicles in this LGA.
- No follow through with announced enhancements to the CPCP with planning proposals being approved without following mitigation guidelines.
- Properties within the new Georges River Koala National Park footprint trading on the open market.
- No changes made to the flailing Koala Strategy, the Koala SEPPs, the BC Act or the LLS Act.

We are calling for the NSW Government to:

-  respect the Chief Scientist’s call for 5 Koala corridors, such as the Mallaty Creek habitat corridor, and crossings in Macarthur, by protecting and restoring them to over 400m widths. 
- apply a scientifically robust definition of Koala habitat to legal frameworks and apply this to all LGAs with Koala sightings, so all councils can quickly proceed with habitat mapping and Comprehensive Koala Plans of Management.
- apply the Chief Scientist corridor advice for Campbelltown and MacArthur across the Sydney Basin, connecting the South-West with the North West, and the North-West to the lower Hunter and zone corridors as C2 to prevent fragmentation.
- Reform the Local Land Services Act to end code based clearing and remove the outdated 1990 regrowth rule. 
- Scrap the unscientific Rural Boundary Clearing Code to prevent fragmentation of habitat.

Please act urgently on the obvious reforms needed to improve the fate of koalas in the Sydney Basin.

Read the Sydney Basin Koala Network's 2025 Progress Report here: https://assets.nationbuilder.com/sydneykoalanetwork/pages/29/attachments/original/1751267200/SBKN_2025_Progress_Report_udpated.pdf?1751267200

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