Ecologists estimate the recent drought and huge bushfires have killed thousands of koalas in NSW, pushing the marsupial to 'endangered status' in the state | p_hannam
Ecologists estimate the recent drought and huge bushfires have killed thousands of koalas in NSW, pushing the marsupial to "endangered status" in the state.
One of the lucky ones: a female koala recovers at the Native Wildlife Rescue Centre in Robertson, eastern NSW.Losses of koala habitat were as much as 85 per cent in the Wardell and Rappville regions, he said.AdvertisementThe plunge in the koala population in fire-hit regions followed the loss of as much as a fifth of their numbers due to the drought.
in NSW also heard Dr Phillips' findings on Tuesday as part of the evidence presented by Stuart Blanch, a conservation scientist from the World Wildlife Fund . "It was worse than we thought," he said, adding that the Berejiklian government needed to act quickly to lift its threat level to help reduce further pressure on the animal.Cate Faehrmann, Greens MP and chair of the inquiry, said that even before the fires "the evidence we heard was that things were pretty dire for the koala in NSW and now they’ve been almost completely wiped out in some areas".
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