The Population Decline of Koalas

                Everybody knows the koala, that sweet Australian animal that resembles a teddy bear. Although koalas look like toys, they are actually strong climbers and spend their days in the treetops. Mother koalas carry their babies around from tree to tree in a pouch, or pocket, on their stomach. Although there were millions of koalas in Australia in the past, they  are now a protected species of animal. As a result of human population growth, deforestation and hunting, the number of koalas has declined.

                During 1990 and 2010, the number of koalas in Queensland and New South Wales has declined, around 33 and 43 %.  The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) approximating that just now there are 45 thousand to 90 thousand number of koalas in the woods. The human population growth is the main factor of koalas number decline, like the increase of cars, dogs, and the decrease land for koalas, because human always do housing development. Much of Koalas were eaten by dogs. Not a little of them were crashed by cars.

               Deforestation or a set up fire of forests and hunting are the next causes of Koalas number decline. They were hunted by human to make wool jackets by their body hairs of skin. Koalas eat and get their requirements  from the water humidity of  eucalyptus leaf. Koalas must  eat eucalyptus leaf at the least of  500 gram for alive, but the high temperature made eucalyptuses now in the threat of deforestation around 41 million hectare of 151.

                The decline of the population of koalas is a bad condition for Australia. They need to keep  koalas so that their original animal will not extinct. The human population growth, deforestation and hunting are the factors the decline. If the conditions are not changed, maybe our grandchild in the next can't see that sweet animal.

Name: Leni Yurmatuti

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