Sydney: Australia officially registered Koala across its East Coast as “endangered” on Friday, with marsupial struggling to survive the impact of forest fires, droughts, droughts and diseases.
The conservationists said the population of Koala had fallen in most East Australia over the past two decades, warned that they were now sliding towards extinction.
Minister of Environment Sussan Ley said he had pointed to the population of koala as “endangered” to offer them a higher level of protection in New South Wales, the Australian and Queensland capitals.
Koala, a unique Australian wildlife symbol recognized globally, has been registered as “vulnerable” on the east coast only a decade before.
“We took an unprecedented action to protect Koala,” said Minister, highlighting the promise of the government recently about Aus $ 50 million (US $ 36 million) to protect and restore koala habitat.
Environmental lovers welcome Koala’s new status but condemn Australia’s failure to protect species so far.
“Koala has switched from a list without being susceptible to endangered in a decade.
It was a very fast decline,” said WWF-Australia conservation scientist Stuart Blanch.
“Today’s decision was welcomed but would not stop Koala from sliding towards extinction unless accompanied by stronger laws and incentives of landowners to protect their forest houses.” Conservationists say it is difficult to provide the right numbers in the population of Koala in Eastern countries affected.
But estimates by independent government advisory agencies – The scientific committee of species threatened shows that the Koala figure has declined from 185,000 in 2001 to only 92,000 in 2021.
‘Losing National Icons’ – Alexia Wellbelove of the Humane Coast Koala can be extinct in 2050 If there is no action taken.
“We can’t afford it anymore,” he said.
The Australian conservation foundation said his own research showed that the federal government had approved a clearing of more than 25,000 hectares of koala habitat since the species were declared vulnerable to a decade ago.
“The Australian National Environmental Law is very ineffective so they do not do a little to stem the destruction of the ongoing koala habitat in Queensland and NSW because the species should be protected a decade ago,” said the Foundation’s natural campaign manager, Basha Stasak.
“Koala’s extinction doesn’t have to happen,” Stasak added.
“We must stop leaving their homes bald to mine, new housing plantations, agricultural projects and industrial logging.” The Australian Koala has lived in the “blade edge” even before the “Black Summer” forest fire which destroyed 2019-2020 due to land clearing, drought, disease, car attack, and dog attacks, said Josey Sharrad, a wildlife campaign manager in the international.
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“We should never allow things to get to the point where we risk losing national icons,” Sharrad said.
“Forest fires are the last straw.
It must be a wake up call to Australia and the government to move much faster to protect the critical habitat of the development and land clearing and seriously overcome the effects of climate change.”