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Dispatches International
EASTERN AUSTRALIA
No Escape
Recent Australian wildfires push the endangered koala
to the brink of extinction. By Jesse Roman
W
ildfires are most often evaluated in
human terms: lives lost, property
damaged, acres burned. It's not often
that a focus of a major fire is the fauna or
flora threatened by the advancing flames.
That was the case in November,
however, when wildlife researchers and
conservationists looked on in horror as
several dozen large brush fires ripped
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through the states of Queensland and
New South Wales in Australia, decimating local koala populations.
As many as 2,000 of the vulnerable
marsupials have died in the blazes and
many more are in danger after the fires
ravaged up to 80 percent of the eucalyptus-rich forests the koalas inhabit,
experts said. The eucalyptus trees,
which are the koalas' primary food
source, will grow back-but it will take
months, leaving the remaining animals
vulnerable to starvation.
"We've lost such a massive swath
of known koala habitat that I think we
can say without any doubt there will be
ongoing declines in koala populations
from this point forward," Mark Graham,
an ecologist with the Australia Nature
Conservation Council, told the Guardian newspaper.
The devastation prompted experts
at the Australian Koala Foundation to
say in November that the species is
now "functionally extinct," meaning
there are not enough breeding pairs for
GETT Y IMAGES
KOALA CARE
In November, massive wildfires began destroying
large areas of koala habitat in Eastern Australia.
Animal rescuers and veterinarians have struggled to
nurse many of the injured animals back to health.
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