Koala populations are under pressure, with a drop in population figures of around eighty per cent from Moreton region to the Gold Coast.

Between 2008 and 2014, koalas were shifted 40 kilometres to enable the Gold Coast Coomera Town Centre development to proceed.

Almost half of the 260 koalas shifted to make way for the Coomera shopping centre are dead.

Half of the koalas that remained in bushland around Coomera Town Centre are now also dead.

Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch has stated in parliament that her department is unable to provide accurate statistics as they are now kept by individual wildlife hospitals.