Conservationists believe hundreds of koalas living on the coastal reserve of New South Wales have been killed in Australia's bushfires
A burnt koala named Anwen, rescued from Lake Innes Nature Reserve, receives formula at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital ICU in Port Macquarie, Australia. November 7, 2019.
About 350 koalas living on the reserve in the coastal town of Macquarie have died in the bushfires, the group Koala Conservation Australia estimates. "We look for signals of pain –– teeth grinding, distress –– and we just take it on a day-by-day basis," said Amanda Gordon, who leads the team of carers, adding that some of the marsupials' health problems can be hard to spot.
Population estimates for koalas, native to Australia, vary widely, from as few as 50,000 to little more than 100,000. "Devastating bushfires are going to knock out some of these key population centres, but so also will increasing temperatures," he said, by affecting the nutrition value of the leaves that are the animals' sole food source.
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