Much of the east coast considers Australia's cuddly marsupial endangered, and one key lobby group wants new laws to make sure it doesn't get any worse.
Last month the marsupial was, however they were only listed as being "vulnerable" at a national level.
The latest Victorian research revealed that an estimated 460,000 koalas lived in Victoria's native forests and eucalypt plantations, but the foundation's figures placed the state's population at fewer than 24,000 koalas."The bottom line is our government has said that koalas are endangered and in Victoria and South Australia the hospitals on the ground are still getting injured animals.
"So do we not care about the welfare of this species, even though we're prepared to put it on every single tourism brochure in the whole planet?" Ms Plibersek was unavailable for comment, but a government spokesperson said the environment had suffered a decade of neglect under the Coalition."Sadly, koalas are currently listed as endangered in the ACT, NSW, and Queensland.A koala sleeps in a tree at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. It's a sight Ms Wilson wants to see replicated across Australia.
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