Imagine a future without Australia’s most iconic species, the koala. Because of climate change and habitat destruction, that’s where we’re heading.

According to state and federal koala action statements, climate change and habitat loss are the biggest threats to the survival of the koala. Stopping coal mines in koala habitat will address both of these threats.

Coal mining in Queensland and NSW is having disastrous impacts on Australia’s endangered koalas. Existing and proposed new coal mines across Queensland and NSW, are set to clear thousands of hectares of critically important Koala habitat - pushing this iconic animal closer to extinction. Coal mines are responsible for the two biggest threats to the koala - habitat loss, and devastating climate change.

Australia is a global leader in extinction. The best way to save animals like the koala is to protect their habitat. All new coal mines and proposed expansions that impact koala habitat must be rejected.

More than 50 national, state and local climate and environment organisations, including, including The Australia Institute, Greenpeace and Queensland Conservation Council have signed on to a joint letter calling on Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to reject new coal mine and coal mine expansions, currently being assessed under the EPBC Act, that will devastate endangered koala habitat.  Read the joint letter.