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Matilda

(6,384 posts)
9. Thank you for that.
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 02:25 AM
Dec 2019

It's in line with what I've been reading. Their habitat in NSW has been seriously eroded over the past five years or so, and dramatically increased over the past two years. The Premier, a ghastly woman by the name of Gladys Berejiklian, has continually ignored the advice of her own Environmental Department and given loggers permission to go in and just obliterate all the trees in areas all over northern NSW. That's where the bushfires now are, so the fires are finishing the job started by Gladys (aka #koalakiller on Twitter). The saddest photo I've ever seen was a koala and her joey sitting on a log on the ground that had obviously once been their home.

But if the story of little Lewis did one thing, it's really alerted caring people to what's been going on, and they are donating in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for the care and future upkeep of koalas, and it's still flowing in. The Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie, where Lewis was taken, has now received just under $2,000,000, and with the help of Taronga Zoo, they can start a breeding program of their own. It's still going to be a huge battle, but at least people are now paying attention.

Pity we don't have a leader who accepts climate change, but maybe, just maybe, there are things people can do by themselves.

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