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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Game reserve koalas are starving to death

Game reserve koalas are starving to death:

"But Ms Tabart said a lack of trees and an inability of koalas to move from Tower Hill to alternative habitats was causing the problem. 'If the Government had a genuine commitment to conserve koalas in Victoria, then there would be a mass planting of habitat,' she said."

Starving koalas means not enough to eat. We have managed populations of Koalas in a much more humane way than this. You can't just shrug off the problem and say it is their fault!!! I hope the Victorian government will listen to Ms. O' Brien and others like her because they work with the animals and they have a commitment to the animals. Governments have other priorities and divided interests, but we actually haven't had a government which just lets koalas starve. They can be moved, given contraceptives, have new habitat grown for them...we have been very successful in managing the koala populations once we have let the bio diversity and animal experts take the lead role. Time to look after the defenceless , people.

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