BY OLIVIA ARIGHO
Environmental campaigner Peter Elzer is walking from Coffs Harbour to Sydney dressed in a koala suit, to demand the NSW Government honour its 2023 commitment to establish the Great Koala National Park on the Mid North Coast.
Mr Elzer’s campaign seeks to raise awareness about an unfulfilled $80 million funding pledge for the park, which environmentalists say is critical to protecting koalas and other threatened species in the region.
“I will be handing [Premier Chris Minns] a letter with a plea for koalas and critically endangered animals.
“Environmentalists and scientists have been clear in that we need to change forest management practices,” he said.
Mr Elzer’s criticised the Government for what he describes as a poor effort on conservation.
“This announcement was made two-and-a-half years ago and this still hasn’t been done. What they have done is the the reverse, which is intensify their logging in such areas,” he said.
He’s walking through Newcastle today and visiting Newcastle MP Tim Crakanthorp's office.
