A rescue dog is offering a glimmer of hope for the koalas in Australia who are suffering from brushfires that have devastated their habitat and pushed them to the brink of extinction.
For the past few weeks, Australian brushfires have raged through parts of the country, devastating the forests koalas call home. Koala rescue groups are calling it the highest koala loss they have ever witnessed. The damage has been so catastrophic that scientists and conservations have just announced that koalas are “functionally extinct.”
Australian Koala Foundation chairman, Deborah Tabart, says that 80 percent of koala habitat has been destroyed and an estimated 1,000 koalas have been killed from the fires. Drought, deforestation and bushfires have all led the population of koalas to no longer be self-sustaining.
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