Environmental groups are calling for a moratorium on new logging in 10 key koala habitat zones on the NSW North Coast identified by the NSW government as deserving increased protection for the marsupial. Details of the 10 so-called focus areas were developed in an analysis of a potential Great Koala National Park by the Department of Planning Industry and the Environment, and revealed following a freedom of information request by the Bellingen Environment Centre. The assessment was ordered by Matt Kean, the energy and environment minister, following a two-day tour of the region in May 2019 soon after he took over the portfolio. The department initially refused to release its findings. All up, the zones would see the transfer of just under 55,000 hectares of state forests to the national park estate, with almost two-thirds of that land currently earmarked for logging.