This article from 2013 describes how a new Forest Management Plan for WA would permit more than 2000 square kilometres of old jarrah and karri forest to be logged. At the time conservationists were outraged and considered this a death sentence to threatened wildlife including WA’s state faunal emblem, the numbat. The original populations of numbats are confined to two small jarrah forest areas and there are fewer than 1,000 of them in the wild. Yet even now, in 2018 logging continues in their last refuges.
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