{"id":5178,"date":"2023-07-31T02:55:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2023-07-31T02:55:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T16:55:24","slug":"koalas-face-extinction-shortage-of-food-on-phillip-island-15-april-1950-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5178","title":{"rendered":"Koalas Face Extinction SHORTAGE OF FOOD ON PHILLIP ISLAND. 15 April 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Koalas Face Extinction (1950, April 15).\u00a0<i>Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 &#8211; 1954)<\/i>, p. 4. Retrieved July 31, 2023, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/95690875?searchTerm=koalas%20face%20extinction#\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/95690875?searchTerm=koalas%20face%20extinction#<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"9059520\" data-x=\"1842\" data-y=\"8741\" data-w=\"822\" data-h=\"292\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Melbourne April 14.\u2014 Hundreds of koala bears face extinction on Phillip Island because of a short age of food. Thousands of manna gums the leaves of which the koalas eat have been cut down and burnt in recent years.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">Now the number of bears has dropped alarmingly, and threatens to drop further unless moves are made to reafforest many parts of the island. The last bear census on Phillip Island indicated that hundreds of bears had disappeared over the last five years.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"9059520\" data-x=\"1844\" data-y=\"9033\" data-w=\"820\" data-h=\"859\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Phillip Island is a popular holiday area at the mouth of Western Port, about 50 miles from Mel-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read clicked\">bourne. The bears are the island\u2019s major holiday attraction.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koalas Face Extinction (1950, April 15).\u00a0Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 &#8211; 1954), p. 4. Retrieved July 31, 2023, from\u00a0https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/95690875?searchTerm=koalas%20face%20extinction# Melbourne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[764,1637,556,1625,1638,1636,1635,1639],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5179,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}