IF WE CAN’T SAVE ICONIC KOALAS WHAT CHANCE DO LESSER KNOWN SPECIES HAVE?
Koalas are listed as an endangered species on Australia’s east coast. Surely the survival of this international icon is worthy of a global effort.
Queensland’s koala population has crashed by an estimated 50% since 2001, and up to 62% of the NSW koala population has been lost over the same period.
If we can’t protect an iconic species endemic to Australia, what chance do lesser known but no less important species have?
Koalas are an international and national icon but were living on a knife edge before the Black Summer bushfires with numbers in severe decline due to land clearing, drought, disease, car strikes and dog attacks.
Koalas have gone from no-listing to vulnerable to endangered within a decade.
That is a shockingly fast decline.
The decision [to list koalas as endangered] is welcome, but it won’t stop koalas from sliding towards extinction unless it’s accompanied by stronger laws and landholder incentives to protect their forest homes.”
LANDHOLDER INCENTIVES IS EXACTLY WHY SAVE OUR WOODLANDS WAS FOUNDED
Save Our Woodlands is an environmentally conscious group of volunteers dedicated to preserving threatened birds, animals and ecosystems in the woodlands of New South Wales, Australia.
Only 15% of our woodlands remain, the rest has been cleared for agriculture.
Save Our Woodlands Inc. secures and protects woodlands in NSW and pays landholders, in perpetuity, to conserve, enhance and re-establish native woodlands on THEIR land, and to manage these woodlands, so they are maintained.
BUT we need YOUR help. Together we can bring about change. Please consider donating.
People tend to think that woodlands are “just bush,” consequently, over 85% of the native woodlands in New South Wales, Australia have been replaced by agriculture.
Donate $10 per month & help protect critical habitats. By doing so YOU will prevent further species from extinction.
Our work is only possible with your support.
BUT THERE IS HOPE
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VIDEO: DOGS HELPING KOALAS
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INCLUDING KOALA
OVER 100 NSW ANIMAL SPECIES THREATENED - INCLUDING KOALAAccording to the New South Wales Government’s Saving our Species program, there are currently 100 priority animal species in NSW that are listed as threatened under the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016....
