The picture of the koala looking for a tree was taken last November near Gunnedah in the state’s north – a town dubbed the koala capital of the world. But 25 per cent of Gunnedah’s koalas died during the heat waves of 2009 as they struggled to find water and sufficient shade.
The probability of koalas being in the Eden region has declined at an average rate of 70 per cent every decade, a report released by WWF Australia released to cooincide with Endangered Species Day on May 19 has found.
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The region supported a koala population of sufficient size to sustain a pelt trade at the end of the 19th century but by 1970 koala numbers had declined to a handful of largely isolated populations in forests on the edge of the Bega and Towamba valleys and around Bermagui.
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