Koalas potentially the next victims of city's housing crisis

By Peter Hannam
Updated October 30 2017 - 9:43am, first published September 3 2017 - 1:44pm
Ricardo Lonza, founder of the Facebook group dedicated to saving the wildife and bushland of Campbelltown, surveys the treetops of St. Helens park for Koalas on Thursday, 31 August 2017. Photo by Cole Bennetts
Ricardo Lonza, founder of the Facebook group dedicated to saving the wildife and bushland of Campbelltown, surveys the treetops of St. Helens park for Koalas on Thursday, 31 August 2017. Photo by Cole Bennetts
A koala crossing sign is pictured in front of a new housing development backing directly onto the Cumberland Plain Woodland corridor, core koala habitat.
A koala crossing sign is pictured in front of a new housing development backing directly onto the Cumberland Plain Woodland corridor, core koala habitat.

Twenty years ago, the koalas around Mount Gilead near Campbelltown in Sydney's south-west, were considered safe with the area explicitly "not required for urban development under the Metropolitan Strategy".

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