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NSW approves Great Koala National Park with carbon credits, splitting environmental groups

The Australian government has approved a plan to create a large koala national park in New South Wales that will protect threatened species and cap logging, but the inclusion of carbon credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars has divided environmentalists and raised questions about whether the Greens could block the proposal.

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NSW approves Great Koala National Park with carbon credits, splitting environmental groups
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The Australian government has approved a plan to create a large koala national park in New South Wales that will protect threatened species and cap logging, but the inclusion of carbon credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars has divided environmentalists and raised questio…