Plan of Action
- The National Koala Conservation and Management Strategy aims to conserve koalas and the ecosystem in which they reside by retaining viable populations in the wild throughout their natural range.
- Their Goals:
- Koala populations in identified priority areas are stabilized or increasing.
- Overabundant koala populations are stabilized or reducing wherever they occur or arise.
- Threatened status of the koala at state and regional levels is reduced.
- Koala remains nationally abundant and widespread, and is not nationally threatened
- The conservation of koalas should seek to complement existing strategies and to provide multi-species benefits, via integration with other measures to conserve Australia’s biological diversity and to maintain ecological systems and processes.
- Community input and involvement should be recognized as being crucial to the conservation of the ecosystem.
- The principles of ecologically sustainable development should be followed, including ‛the precautionary principle’, which in application means that decisions should be ‛guided by careful evaluation to avoid serious or irreversible damage to the environment, and by an assessment of the risk-weighted consequences of options'.
- Foundations are doing research and finding sufficient evidence that proves this ecosystem is endangered and needs to be protected, and once they organize it in a professional manor they will/have presented it to the government of that country ( specifically Australia)
- These foundations hope to have protection laws passed
- All of these goals range from short term to longer term and the amount of time this includes is anywhere from 1 to 50 years