A long-awaited plan to protect koala habitats is a step closer with the outline of proposed boundaries to reserve hundreds of thousands of hectares for wildlife, in a move critics warn will cripple the local timber industry.

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The NSW government on Sunday revealed the proposed outlines of the Great Koala National Park, an election promise.

It will reserve 176,000 hectares of state forest and connect with existing national parks to create a 476,000-hectare reserve to protect more than 12,000 koalas in the state's north.

The habitat to be protected also supports about 36,000 greater gliders and more than 100 other threatened species.

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