The Australian koala is vulnerable to climate change, with the iconic Australian marsupial's habitat likely to be restricted to the highly urbanised areas of eastern and southern Australia under a hotter and drier climate, ...
Ecology
May 4, 2011
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Australia moved on Monday to protect its most vulnerable koalas, listing the much-loved furry tree-dwellers as a threatened species in parts of the country.
Ecology
Apr 30, 2012
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Thousands of koalas may have died in fires burning through New South Wales but expert evidence to a state parliamentary inquiry on Monday said we are unlikely to ever know the real numbers.
Plants & Animals
Dec 10, 2019
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Australia is one of the world's most highly urbanised nations – 90% of Australians live in cities and towns, with development concentrated along the coast. This poses a major threat to native wildlife such as the koala, ...
Ecology
Feb 26, 2019
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Federal environment minister Sussan Ley this week announced A$2 million for a national audit of Australia's koalas, as part of an A$18 million package to protect the vulnerable species.
Ecology
Nov 26, 2020
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Australian cities are remarkable in the sheer diversity of wildlife that somehow manages to live among us, from flocks of raucous cockatoos or noisy lorikeets to the dusk fly-out of huge numbers of flying-foxes.
Ecology
Aug 4, 2016
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On Tuesday, a year-long New South Wales parliamentary inquiry revealed the state's koalas are on track for extinction in the wild by 2050, without urgent government intervention.
Plants & Animals
Jul 2, 2020
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Australia unveiled on Monday a US$34 million plan to help bring its koala population back from the brink, following a rapid decline in the furry marsupial's fortunes.
Ecology
May 7, 2018
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Figures released this week suggest Australia's koala populations have plummeted by 30% in three years, and fewer than 58,000 now remain in the wild.
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2021
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Financial payments made by land developers to offset their impacts on threatened species may fall short, according to University of Queensland-led research.
Ecology
Jul 9, 2023
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