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WHAT IS PUTTING KOALAS AT RISK OF EXTINCTION?  

Koala populations along Australia's east coast have been declining due to a culmination of various factors. 

Habitat loss from deforestation, diseases such as chlamydia, attacks from predators, fire and road collisions are all contributing to their decline. 

It was previously thought they only got hydration from leaves but a revolutionary new study has found they are actually able, and willing, to drink from standing water.

Koalas can't simply eat more leaves to compensate for reduced water content in their favourite food because they are limited by how much they can devour by leaf toxins.

They are listed as 'vulnerable' on the IUCN Red list which tracks at-risk animals. 

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