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On the Brink: Look at Koalas.

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                                                    Credit: Australian Geographic The Koala is an Australian icon, unfortunately over the course of the past 100 years in particular this beautiful species has faced extinction through deforestation, logging, cats and dogs, droughts, bushfires and so much more. I was lucky enough that in 2018 I spent time in Port Macquarie of New South Wales with a Koala Hospital in which I was able to work with these fantastic species. A group of amazing volunteers had to walk over dead logs from logging in Koala habitat to rehabilitate recovered Koalas, the situation is dire. It has been over 90 years since the Queensland culling of Koalas occurred in which took the lives of roughly 600,000 Koalas for their pelts. The population is estimated to be between 30,000 to 80,000 now not even making a half of that population. I would also like to mention the neglect on this issue for the sake of making profit from former New South Wales State premier Gladys Ber