An international koala protection group is engaging a barrister to challenge the Queensland government in court over failing to protect the koala’s habitat.
Sue Arnold from Australians for Animals, said state and federal governments were now dragging their feet in protecting koalas.
Ms Arnold said neither the Queensland nor New South Wales governments set up koala protection zones “as promised” and neither set aside land for koala habitat “as promised”.
“So you have a species that has basically been abandoned by governments and their politics are politically sanctioned extinction,” she said.