Ohhh, I love koalas so much, I do not want them to go extinct. Take a look at my page and you'll see that the koala is my favorite Australian animal.
Posted on 11/10/2009 6:22:51 AM PST by myknowledge
THE Federal Government must stop counting trees and start counting koalas as the animals suffer dramatic declines, it was claimed yesterday.
Scientists will meet today in Canberra to debate whether koalas should be made a threatened species under federal laws.
The Australian Koala Foundation yesterday released figures which it claimed showed falls in koala numbers across NSW and Australia were so dramatic it was vital they were granted federal government protection.
And the conservation group said it feared Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett would refuse to list koalas as endangered because there was supposedly enough bush for them.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.com.au ...
Ohhh, I love koalas so much, I do not want them to go extinct. Take a look at my page and you'll see that the koala is my favorite Australian animal.
Perhaps the koalas aren’t mating because there are so many conservationists and government officials stomping around in their habitat counting them.
Very sad.
Aren’t koala’s too much of an icon to get too far down the road to extinction? I doubt they would let that happen. But you never know.
Let me be the first. Bushs fault!!!
They're fur is unexpectedly rough. Its not soft like rabbit fur (as I was expecting), but more like steel wool. Very sweet creatures.
Efforts are underway to assist the koala.
The Mercy Hospital for Animals in Australia specializes in treating sick koala bears. Although koalas don’t generally drink water, they have found that a strong tea of eucalyptus leaves boosts their immune system, and promotes healing. It’s a rather lumpy beverage, but, of course, the koala tea of Mercy is not strained.
Might just be me. When I think of Australia I think of koalas. Kangaroos are just overgrown jackrabbits, IMO.
Ding Ding Ding we have a winner.
I thought they were already on the endangered list. They used to be hunted for their fur.
I think of Kookaburras. They have such a LOUD, funny sound. In the gum tree in the back yard, we had a nest of them. You didn’t need an alarm clock with Kookaburras near your window!
Are they good eating?
One could say that Koalas have ‘evolved’ a unique survival system: They are so cute that humans want to help them survive.
I agree 100%! :-)
The two dollar bill is long defunct - replaced by a coin in 1988 (the dollar was replaced in 1984). And, in fact, all the notes have changed since then - plastic notes quite different to the old paper ones.
Surprisingly, perhaps, the Koala isn't on any of the standard coins, although it does appear on commemoratives from time to time.
Its been a while since I've been there! ;-)
Still have an Aussie $2.00 bill in my wallet.
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