If we want to #secure #koalas we need the #technology to #secure + #use koala #sex #cells in genetic recovery!
#Koala '#extinction timeline' in #NSW brought forward as 10,000 wiped out this summer in #NSWbushfires, inquiry told
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-18/ten-thousand-koalas-could-have-died-nsw-bushfires/11975378
#NSWbushfires have caused the loss of #koalas and likely koala #genetics that cannot be replaced. We need #technology to #secure + #use koala #sex #cells in genetic recovery as a last line of defence against #extinction @DrRRwitt @lachlan_gh @ChadleyBera
https://theconversation.com/to-save-koalas-from-fire-we-need-to-start-putting-their-genetic-material-on-ice-128049?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2011%202019%20-%201483514096&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2011%202019%20-%201483514096+CID_4b691824609289aa867ebf2d23631170&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=To%20save%20koalas%20from%20fire%20we%20need%20to%20start%20putting%20their%20genetic%20material%20on%20ice
Not holding our breath that's for sure 🙁
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/22/frydenberg-stalls-on-woodlands-protection-after-pressure-from-states-and-farmers
How NOT to manage a rewilding project...and maybe it should never have been attempted on such a small scale?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/dutch-rewilding-experiment-backfires-as-thousands-of-animals-starve
Our Government! Seriously - what about listening to the experts rather than rejecting outright the "bad news"!!??
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/29/australia-gets-un-to-delete-criticism-of-murray-darling-basin-plan-from-report