& apos; Koalicidio & apos; in Australia: the fire ends with 2,000 copies

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Forest fires burning in eastern Australia since early November have killed more than 2,000 koalas, a species already classified as "vulnerable," academic sources told Efe on Monday.

Australian environmentalist Dailan Pugh, who will present a study on the situation of koalas before the Senate of the state of New South Wales (southwest of the country), told Efe that recent fires have claimed the lives of around 25% of the koalas in the region, whose population was about 8,400.

Pugh's data, calculated through the potential distribution of animals and the amount of calcined land, double the numbers of other foundations for the protection of koalas, also threatened by the country's drought, diseases and tree felling.

Protect forests

Pugh, president of the NGO North East Forest Alliance, estimates that on the north coast of New South Wales, about 24% of the habitat of the koalas has been lost due to fires and recommends the imposition of a moratorium on forest felling .

The ecologist explained that the calcined forests have lost their leaves and no longer provide shelter or food to the koalas, who have perished "by fires or indirectly afterwards due to lack of food."

The severity of the forest fires makes fear of the disappearance of the koalas, whose population throughout the country is around 80,000 copies according to the Koala Australia Foundation, if this type of catastrophe continues and the remaining eucalyptus forests are not protected in the North coast of New South Wales.

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