Protesters rallied in Tweed Heads, Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie on National Threatened Species Day on September 7.
Outside the office of National鈥檚 MP Geoff Provest in Tweed Head, protesters heard from the North East Forest Alliance鈥檚 Sean O'Shannessy and Dailan Pugh.
鈥淭he government needs to feel the heat from the people of New South Wales,鈥 he said. 鈥淭he NSW Coalition government is spending millions of dollars to log and clear threatened species habitat. This has to stop for koalas and greater gliders to survive.鈥
The movement against the extinction wants the NSW government protect the habitat of all threatened species 鈥 including in public forests.
鈥淭hings need to be turned around so that Provest feels like a threatened species,鈥 Pugh said.
鈥淲e will not stand by while koalas and greater gliders, and a huge range of other species, becomes extinct. We rely on those forests for our water, our climate, our fire protection and the economic value for tourism in this hotspot of biodiversity.鈥
The Nationals won Tweed from聽Labor in 2007 and only have a very slim margin.