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Research conducted by the Nature Conservation Council (NCC) and WWF Australia has found that the koala habitat, which is the size of 14 football fields, is being bulldozed every day in one part of the New South Wales state since the government weakened the laws. This might lead to their extinction by 2050. New South Wales and Queensland Koalas have been listed as vulnerable to extinction under national and state laws. More than 5,000 hectares of koala habitat have been cleared in just one year in north-central NSW. "The area where this habitat destruction has occurred is one of the most heavily cleared in the state, with only 6 percent of forest remaining while an additional 11 percent was in sparse woodlands," said NCC CEO Kate Smolski.
Since European colonization, koalas, which have been living in Australia for 25 million years, have lost their habitats due to urban, agricultural, and mining development, climate change, and the commercialization of their skins until the 1930s. The state government 2017 decided to repeal the Native Vegetation Act 2003, which prevented farmers from felling trees. The report concludes that this was likely the primary reason behind the dramatic surge in the forest and woodland destruction in this known clearing hotspot. The koalas are threatened by the destruction of food and shelter trees and forest fragmentation, which exposes them to higher mortalities from vehicle strikes, dog attacks, and stress. In some areas, koalas have also died due to Chlamydia, a bacterial infection that causes injuries to the genitals and eyes, causing infertility and blindness, slowly consuming them to death. WWF Australia estimates there are likely less than 20,000 koalas left in NSW and at the current rate, they are on track to be extinct in the state.