Koalas could go extinct

Koalas could go extinct

By Callen Guillory    period 3    Media Literature

You arrive at the zoo in Australia and you are excited to see the Koala Bears. When you arrive at the zoo, you sprint towards the Koala habitat and you are exhilarated to finally get there. You have been waiting in lines and planes and car rides. This is the moment, you are finally here. Your smile is as bright as the sun and when you look through the glass of the Koala habitat, there are no Koalas. You look over to the right, then left and you notice a sign with the words “Sorry, but the Koala habitat is closed due to a medical illness in the Koalas”.

In Australia, the most popular attraction is dieing of a disease. In some places in Australia, koalas are actually going to be extinct. The cause, AIDS and it’s deadly. This disease is causing Koalas to die a slow and painful death.

Millions everywhere are heart-broken from this. Australia Koala foundation president Deborah Tabart says “I can promise you after being on government committees for years and lobbying minister after minister, I see nothing in our country being done to protect Koalas”. The foundation also states that if nothing is done to help save Koalas, they will be extinct in 30 years. People are also saying that Australia will lose about 1 billion US dollars, because they make that much money with tourism.

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Links

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-12-13/world/australia.koalas_1_koalas-deborah-tabart-extinction?_s=PM:WORLD

pictures

http://www.stanford.edu/~jay/koalas/koalas.html

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/koala/