The Australian Government has designated koalas inhabiting eastern states as "endangered species" and is rushing to protect them.
From the 12th, the endangered species are Koala, which lives in Queensland in eastern Australia, New South Wales, where the largest city of Sydney is located, and a special area with the capital Canberra.
According to the WWF = World Wildlife Fund, an environmental group, the number of koalas in 2020 will decrease by half in Queensland and from 40% to 70% in New South Wales compared to about 20 years ago. It is estimated that it was done.
Koalas lived in a large-scale forest fire that continued from 2019 to the following year, in addition to the spread of infectious diseases that cause drought and blindness due to climate change, at a meeting held on the 11th prior to the designation. He complained that protection was the highest priority because he was deprived of it.
The Australian government has budgeted A $ 50 million, or approximately JPY 4.1 billion in Japanese yen over the next four years, to rush to protect koala burns and infectious diseases and restore habitats. I am doing it.