Thousands of koala are displaced every year, as blue gums are reduced VictoriaThis exacerbates overcrowding in nearby forests and exacerbates the risk of infection and death during the bush fires.
An estimated 42500 Kuala lives in blue gum farms In southwest Victoria, data appears. Between 8000 and 10,000 The farm height is harvested Every year, making thousands of Koalas shelter.
Scientists said that displaced animals crossed the methods used by trucks. They moved to the trees along the road reserves, on neighboring property and nearby forests, which quickly strip the naked. Some migrated to the neighboring farms, just to be expelled again the following year.
“It is a very stressful situation for Awalas,” said Dr. Disley Wason, an environmental scientist at Decoin University, a Koala administration. “Blue gums are cut off, and this koala must find a place to go.”
She said that each year is likely to be displaced thousands of koala due to the harvest of farms, based on its density on farms and the registration scale.
Koalas is inserted as threatened with extinction in New South Wales, Quinzland and the lands of the Australian capital, but in the southwest of Victoria and South Australia there are not enough trees to maintain Kuala residents.
Csiro The national population is estimated It ranges between 224,000 and 524,000.
Wesson said that Qalaas, who was displaced by blue gums, was already adding high densities in nearby trees and forests and contributing to the decline in the nearby vegetation, such as Mana Sumg. Excessive abundance, in addition to drought or fire, in the end can lead to luxury issues – collective hunger and death – while leaving land managers and wildlife care providers to deal with the consequences.
One of the Licensed Coal shelter in the southwest, who asked not to be named, said that it had helped up to 450 sick or infected animals per year. She said that the displaced animals are sometimes in the trees that fell and ended up with broken bones, or the orphan children were left behind. Others were attacked by cows or dogs.
She said that some koles froze in the lights of truck recording while crossing roads. “The quantity of killing the roads is horrific,” the career said. “They were in a big and big forest throughout their lives. Then suddenly torn them.”
2023 A study of the reported koala deaths In southeast Queensland, vehicles were found responsible for about half (1431) of all deaths.
The Victorian government released its strategy in Kuala in May 2023. It has detailed problems in Koala’s sponsorship associated with farms, but it did not focus on long -term solutions.
The strategy said: “There are currently no cost -effective management techniques that will be acceptable to society, or clear targets for koala management in blue gums.”
Victoria’s Ministry of Environment said that it is working with animal care groups and experts to ensure the sustainability of Kuala population and invested 3.3 million dollars in the management and research of Kuala.
“It is good for Victoria to have a large number of koala residents, but it faces threats such as disease, climate change and poor genetic diversity in some population,” said a spokesman for the Guardian newspaper, Australia.
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Dr. Keita Ashman, the environment scientist at WWF Australia, said that the farmer had changed the deep scene since its foundation in the nineties and Alvin.
She said that the blue gum leaves provide a source of nutrients for food that enabled animals to reach much higher numbers than usual, but no one has dealt properly with the repercussions. She said that the farmer industry is required to obtain a permit before disturbing the koala, involving Kuala monitors and keeping at least nine trees around any animal that is observed during the harvest, but there was little responsibility for the fate of the displaced animals.
She said: “We are mainly cultivating this Smorgasbord from the farms to which Qalas moves and then feeds on it,” she said.
But Ashman said that the answer should not be to get rid of farms, because it was an important alternative to the original forest registration industry.
Weson said it was a “evil problem” that is likely to worsen. But she said that there are landscape solutions that could improve the situation. The blue gum industry included, leaving part of each Falala farm to stay or contribute to restoring permanent habitats. They can also support wildlife career and animal hospitals that deal with repercussions.
She said in the long run, the industry can consider cultivating alternative trees that were less acceptable to koala than blue gum.
Dr. Rolf Shalglotel, the environment scientist in Kuala, from the Central University of Queensland, said that the provision of College to go was a “solid problem.”
The real issue is not to communicate [of nature] And he failed to manage the koala habitats correctly. “
Chalglon said that all stakeholders need to participate in finding solutions and that government and state governments needed to recognize mistakes – and it will take a great effort and financing to reform them.
He said: “We need an open and honest discussion, to make sure that Kuala – which is one of the main species – is rescued.”
