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This may be old news, but I just saw this:
"As historic droughts and brushfires sweep across Australia, koala populations have been decimated, according to some reports.
Deborah Tabart, the chairman of the Australian Koala Foundation, estimated that over 1,000 koalas have been killed from the fires, and as much as 80 percent of their habitat has been destroyed, Forbes reported.
The organization predicted that the Koala population was “functionally extinct” in May, when it estimated that there were fewer than 80,000 koalas left in the wild – prior to the recent casualties – the BBC reported. An animal is “functionally extinct” if it has so few pairs that it is unlikely to produce a new generation."
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...ralian-koala-population-hit-as-wildfires-rage
That sucks. They are cute little guys.
"As historic droughts and brushfires sweep across Australia, koala populations have been decimated, according to some reports.
Deborah Tabart, the chairman of the Australian Koala Foundation, estimated that over 1,000 koalas have been killed from the fires, and as much as 80 percent of their habitat has been destroyed, Forbes reported.
The organization predicted that the Koala population was “functionally extinct” in May, when it estimated that there were fewer than 80,000 koalas left in the wild – prior to the recent casualties – the BBC reported. An animal is “functionally extinct” if it has so few pairs that it is unlikely to produce a new generation."
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...ralian-koala-population-hit-as-wildfires-rage
That sucks. They are cute little guys.