Owner of Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park Sam Mitchell says “for every koala we are seeing alive, there are 100 dead”.
“Kangaroo Island is well known for our Koala population, which is considered to be Australia’s only disease-free population of
koalas with well over 50 to 60,000,” Mr Mitchell told Sky News. “Half of their prime habitat has been wiped out”. Image: News Corp Australia
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