Queensland koala funding diverted to rollercoaster could be much better spent, experts say

Scientists say public money originally set for Dreamworld koala tourism facility' could be used to combat habitat loss and chlamydia

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The Queensland government's decision to quietly divert $2.7m from what it had previously promised would be a state-of-the-art koala research facility to build a rollercoaster instead was a public relations disaster.

But the Queensland Conservation Council director, Dave Copeman, is not mourning the loss of the jettisoned Future Lab wildlife research centre at Dreamworld, nor its impact on marsupials recently declared endangered.