Koala’s headed for extinction…
[This prompts rage and tears of sadness.
Where are our leaders? Why the vast silence from the corridors of power?
How can I be anything but a Green, given what is happening? How can anyone?
-Thomas]
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=5442289
Koalas, an iconic symbol of Australia, face extinction as rapid urbanization along the eastern seaboard destroys their fragile habitat, environmental activists have warned.
The Australian Koala Foundation has written to the government urging it to declare the koala a vulnerable species after a survey of 1,000 koala habitats found 30 percent no longer had a koala in them and 60 percent had suffered widespread destruction.
“I truly believe that in my lifetime the koala will become extinct unless we do something,” Deborah Tabarat, executive director of the foundation, told Reuters.
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