The Nambucca Shire Council in New South Wales resolved not to support plans to convert state forests into a koala national park.
Proponents of turning the forests into a National park argued there would be significant economic gain in tourism while the logging industry said it would damage the local timber industry.
The Greens expressed disappointment in Nambucca Shire Council's failure to support the park, and said the council would rather allow native forests to be logged towards extinction, instead of exploring opportunities to conserve them.