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Koalas - Extinction risk
October 25 , 2024
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- At one point, there were millions of Koalas, a eucalyptus-munching tree climber.
- Now, there are anywhere between 95,000 and 524,000 left in Australia.
- The government officially listed East Coast koalas as ’endangered’ in 2022.
- Chlamydia is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis.
- It was first observed in koalas about 50 years ago.
- In the times that followed it has wiped out entire local populations.
- Their populations have plummeted to between 95,000 and 524,000.
- Now, Australia has become the ’extinction capital’ of the world.
- This island nation is having the highest rate of mammal extinction in the world,
- About 100 of the country’s unique flora and fauna species wiped out in the last 123 years.
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