Koalas are practically extinct.

[LazyHippo]

An australian report says:  

Today the Australian Koala Foundation announced they believe “there are no more than 80,000 koalas in Australia”, making the species “functionally extinct”.

 

http://theconversation.com/a-report-claims-koalas-are-functionally-extinct-but-what-does-that-mean-116665

 

Very sad news for the animal world imo.  

 

 

[CheepHeep]

As time goes on, they are becoming less and less koalafied to be on this planet. Time to protect and preserve our animals!

[seriallnumber]

There are only about 3000 tigers in India,  they are endangered!! 

[RedBaird]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48284392 says 

 

"The number given by the Australian Koala Foundation is much lower than the most recent academic estimates, but experts agree that koala numbers in many places are in steep decline. " ,

 

and "Researchers say because the koala moves around and they live in lots of different habitats - from coastal islands and tall eucalyptus trees, to woodland forests - they can be difficult to track. "

 

The BBC article also said that, "Although 80,000 sounds like a lot, the foundation says these koalas are unlikely to produce a new generation.  'Functionally extinct' describes an animal population which has so few pairs that they are unlikely to produce a new generation.  "     (That is not precisely what the AKF news release said...)

 

Wikipedia article on "Functional Extinction" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_extinction mentions that Koala Foundation report,

 

Quote

On May 10, 2019, the Australian Koala Foundation issued a press release that opened with the sentence "The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) believes Koalas may be functionally extinct in the entire landscape of Australia."[33] The press release was reported on by multiple news agencies around the world, with most repeating the AKF's statement.[34] Despite this, Koalas are not currently considered functionally extinct[35]; while their population has decreased, the IUCN Red List lists them only as "Vulnerable".[36] The AKF's press release was released on the eve of the 2019 elections in Australia, where topics such as climate change were major issues, and may have been a political ploy intended to bring attention to man-made threats such as habitat destruction and global warming.[37]

 

The Australia Koala Foundation Press release of 10 May 2019 : https://www.savethekoala.com/sites/savethekoala.com/files/uploads/AKF_press_release_10_may_2019.pdf 

 

 

 

[PhoeniXx]

5 hours ago, Kai said:

There are only about 3000 tigers in India,  they are endangered!! 

It was on Brink of extinction in 2007 with only 1464 tigers approx left in wild...

No.s have increased since then to 3000 approx it's still less but it's improving

The sad part is there is still news coming where villagers beat leopards and tigers to death... This is bound to happen with such a major population burst! And such little land space... And lack proper education in most of the people

Unless the government act on these conditions won't improve more

 

 

Nevertheless it's not just koalas each and every animal on the planet is on the verge of extinction and that's solely due to humans and not environmental changes

Edited August 4, 2019 by PhoeniXx

[LazyHippo]

  

17 hours ago, CheepHeep said:

As time goes on, they are becoming less and less koalafied to be on this planet. Time to protect and preserve our animals!

 

Whoa Cheepy! really dont know how you could manage to equilibrate one sad thing into satirical joke lol but yes we need to take care of our planet, for now is the only one left or do as Stephen Hawking RIP said "the future of humanity is on other planets", we have wasted this one into one no return point.

The other day was reading I dont remember how much tons of ice melted from Greenland this summer, all dumped into the ocean.

That global warming is a reality, lets see what happens but I dont see a nice forecast.

 

[Vindstot]

 

Yea, Koalas are not pandas, but almost

Edited August 4, 2019 by Vindstot

[LazyHippo]

5 minutes ago, Vindstot said:

 

 

Raw analysis of sitiuation, obviously lots of foundations make profit from it but problem here is not money, that video is making the distinction of protecting more one species than others, all should remain equal. And then it compares it to the money needed, in this world there is enough money, is just not good distributed, money shouldnt be a problem to take care of an endangered species.

[White Raven]

There are quite a lot of endangered species 

You are lucky if you see one of these in Colombia: 

https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/55264/85887889

 

[Vindstot]

25 minutes ago, LazyHippo said:

 

Raw analysis of sitiuation, obviously lots of foundations make profit from it but problem here is not money, that video is making the distinction of protecting more one species than others, all should remain equal. And then it compares it to the money needed, in this world there is enough money, is just not good distributed, money shouldnt be a problem to take care of an endangered species.

Its more like that you donate eg a dollar to an organization to take care of koalas, or whatever, and some % will be the salary of the employees of the organization, other % will go to help the species. Some organizations take more off of your money to pay as salaries to CEO, and others
Im not sure if all species should be equal priority. There are some species more important than others. Depending on what you prioratize.

The money is probably enough. But I dont think all people in the world will start putting effort into saving species, most ppl just wont care about it at all. The priority of individual people / government play a huge role in what becomes instinct and what doesnt. And yes, you could argue that people should care more about it, but money has to come from somewhere