Real Climate Records

KOALAS FACE EXTINCTION.

Of the three families of koalas-the New South Wales, the Victorian, and the Queensland the N.S.W. family is nearest extinction, according to the report of the Koala Club.

The promise of the N.S.W. Government to nationalise koala conservation came to nothing, and the war has made further approach to the Government out of the question for the time, states the president. Mr. O. D. Oberg, and the secretary. Hr. Frank Edwards, in their report.

Some thousands of koalas are still at large in Queensland, but their numbers are dwindling, because of disease, bushfires, illegal shooting, dogs, foxes, and dingoes.

There are 400 of the Victorian race of koalas left.

BUSH FIRE HORROR.

The number of New South Wales koalas is believed to be fewer than Victoria’s 600.

“Their plight in the open bush may be guessed by the fact that Pittwater residents say that koalas there are almost extinct,” adds the report.

“Residents of Trunkey say the cries of koala victims of the 1930 bush fires area never to be forgotten horror,” the report goes on. “We are urging the Government to adopt a more comprehensive scheme than bushland protection by proclamation. An adequately protected

koala breeding reserve is essential”

The club draws attention to the need for the sanctuary care for other types of Australian fauna, including the kangaroo rat,the banded marsupial ant-eater, the rabbit bandicoot, and the small marsupial mice, which are rapidly nearing extinction.