"Research painted a grim picture of the health and wellbeing of Victoria’s koalas." "...We have a crisis in our koala populations in Victoria because we have a very concerning level of poor health and welfare.” “Sitting on critical ecological data for over a year while koalas continued to suffer and disappear is a shocking failure of transparency and responsibility." >> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/10/victorias-koalas-in-chronically-poor-health-and-population-is-half-what-was-previously-estimated #biodiversity #koalas #ExtinctionCrisis #OrganisedAbandonment