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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 24, 2019, 03:57:48 PM

Title: Koalas functionally extinct
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 24, 2019, 03:57:48 PM
Look on our works, ye mighty, and despair


https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/11/23/koalas-functionally-extinct-after-australia-bushfires-destroy-80-of-their-habitat/
Title: Re: Koalas functionally extinct
Post by: Roses on November 24, 2019, 04:05:19 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on November 24, 2019, 03:57:48 PM
Look on our works, ye mighty, and despair


https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/11/23/koalas-functionally-extinct-after-australia-bushfires-destroy-80-of-their-habitat/

That is awful! :o
Title: Re: Koalas functionally extinct
Post by: Anchorman on November 24, 2019, 06:25:35 PM
Terrifying indictment of our mistreatment of the environment....yet no worse than the virtual exctinction of the Scottish wildcat, I'm afraid.
Title: Re: Koalas functionally extinct
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 24, 2019, 07:07:02 PM
Quote from: Anchorman on November 24, 2019, 06:25:35 PM
Terrifying indictment of our mistreatment of the environment....yet no worse than the virtual exctinction of the Scottish wildcat, I'm afraid.
Sort of, the Scottish wildcat wasn't an iconic animal in the same way as the koala.