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A report claims koalas are 'functionally extinct' – but what does that mean?

  • Written by Christine Adams-Hosking, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
A report claims koalas are 'functionally extinct' – but what does that mean?Koalas are facing serious threats in the wild.Mathias Appel/Flickr

Today the Australian Koala Foundation announced they believe “there are no more than 80,000 koalas in Australia”, making the species “functionally extinct”.

While this number is dramatically lower than the most recent academic estimates, there’s no doubt...

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