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Natural history illustrator John Gould popularised the koala with his 1863 work The Mammals of Australia. Naturalist and popular artist John Gould illustrated and described the koala in his three-volume work The Mammals of Australia (1845–1863) and introduced the species, as well as other members of Australia's little-known faunal community ...
The koala is listed in national conservation legislation as "Phascolarctos cinereus (combined populations of Qld, NSW and the ACT)", previously determined in 2012 to be "a species for the purposes of the EPBC act 1999" . [7] The koala was classified as Least Concern on the Red List, and reassessed as Vulnerable in 2014. [8]
Koala skins were widely traded early in the 20th century. Koala conservation organisations, programs and government legislation are concerned with the declining population of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), a well known Australian marsupial found in gum trees. The Australian government declared the species as endangered by extinction in 2022.
Koala rescue and rehabilitation specialists in New South Wales shared a video of one of their residents, who is “completely blind”, deftly guiding himself down a tree on November 14.Located ...
A New South Wales rescue and rehabilitation service that focuses on the care of koalas shared footage on November 1 of one of their residents returning to the wild after it had recovered from ...
Several weeks ago, a koala entered the emergency department of Hamilton Base Hospital in Victoria, Australia.
The Phascolarctidae (φάσκωλος (phaskolos) - pouch or bag, ἄρκτος (arktos) - bear, from the Greek phascolos + arctos meaning pouched bear) is a family of marsupials of the order Diprotodontia, consisting of only one extant species, the koala, [1] and six well-known fossil species, with another six less well known fossil species, and two fossil species of the genus Koobor, whose ...
Footage posted on Facebook on April 20 shows a rare koala with a blue eye and a brown eye sitting on a tree in Port Stephens, New South Wales.Port Stephens Koalas wrote on the Facebook post that ...