Reports claim that the bushfires ravaging Australia have destroyed so much of koalas’ habitat that the native marsupial is now “functionally extinct.” Researchers stress that the fight to protect koalas and their habitat is not a lost cause though
Bushfires are ravaging Australia, threatening the koala population. Photo: SAEED KHAN/AFP via Getty Images Over the weekend, Forbes reported that the bushfires ravaging Australia have destroyed so much of koalas’ habitat that the native marsupial is now “functionally extinct.
“It’s a national tragedy,” Port Macquarie Koala Hospital clinical director Cheyne Flanagan told ABC News Australia. On Today, Koala Conservation Australia president Sue Ashton expressed similar anguish: “I don’t know how we are going to come back from this.” “What is particularly frustrating about the term ‘functional extinction’ is it indicates a population that is basically past the point of no return, so it means that nothing really can be done,” Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute and School of Biology and Ecology, told the Times.
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