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News by Anton Nilsson   EXCLUSIVE The NSW government is expanding three national parks by a thousand hectares in total to secure land for the state's vulnerable koala population. The new land will add 912 hectares to Cataract National Park three hours west of Byron Bay, and 93 hectares combined to Maria National Park in Crescent Head near Kempsey and Bongil Bongil National Park south of Coffs Harbour. "This expansion of key areas of our national parks secure critical habitat across a number of animal and plant species, most notably our iconic koalas,...

Advertisement NSW will triple the size of its feral-free sanctuaries as it steps up efforts to bring back marsupials previously wiped out by threats such as cats and preserve other endangered creatures. The Berejiklian government will spend $20.3 million to bring added protection to about 45,000 hectares of land already within national parks. More than 50 threatened species are expected to benefit from the special zones. The fence that surrounds a 9500-hectare area within the Mallee Cliffs National Park where all foxes and cats have been removed, to enable the successful reintroduction of nat...