Discovered this interesting piece from Dr Alex Hynes’ blog site and it really piqued our interest. It’s called The Koala Crisis – How You Can Help.
It shares some intriguing points about the ongoing crisis we have with our nation’s Koalas. Here’s one alarming detail from it:
Along with slow breeding, add a triple combo of increasing deforestation, warmer weather through climate changes, and bushfires destroying their only food source (leaves), there are deep concerns Australia’s rapidly declining koala population could be extinct in the wild by 2050.
If you want to know a bit more, take a look at the rest of this interesting article…