Estimates today of the number of koalas left in Australia vary between 40,000 and 300,000 according to "30 Millions d'amis," the weekly French television program on animals. Three hundred years ago there were several million.
One of the septuagenarian Australia women interviewed states that the koalas she takes care of--ones who have been injured in the wild and that she eventually releases back into their natural habitat--states that they "have reveled her own humanity to herself."
http://www.30millionsdamis.fr/lemission/au-sommaire-de-la-semaine/affiche-reportage/reportage/au-secours-des-koalas.html
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In fact, the population of kolas has decreased 90% in the past 15 years. One veterinarian hospital treats 20 injured koalas per week.
http://www.francetvinfo.fr/live/message/516/06b/891/cc6/f06/538/05e/237.html
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Two questions remain as to why their numbers have been so drastically reduced and whether or not the koala will even survive at all as a species.
Is it loss of their natural habitat? Disease? Poachers?
One of the septuagenarian Australia women interviewed states that the koalas she takes care of--ones who have been injured in the wild and that she eventually releases back into their natural habitat--states that they "have reveled her own humanity to herself."
http://www.30millionsdamis.fr/lemission/au-sommaire-de-la-semaine/affiche-reportage/reportage/au-secours-des-koalas.html
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In fact, the population of kolas has decreased 90% in the past 15 years. One veterinarian hospital treats 20 injured koalas per week.
http://www.francetvinfo.fr/live/message/516/06b/891/cc6/f06/538/05e/237.html
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Two questions remain as to why their numbers have been so drastically reduced and whether or not the koala will even survive at all as a species.
Is it loss of their natural habitat? Disease? Poachers?
It would be terrible if the koala were to become extinct, only found in a few zoos around the world.
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