Thousands of Australia’s koalas felled by land-clearing: WWF

Australian koalas are dying by the thousands as a result of land clearing in the country’s northeast, while millions of birds and reptiles are also perishing, conservation group WWF said Sunday.

The environmental body warned that unless urgent action was taken to stop trees being felled, some species would be pushed to the brink of extinction.

In an annual statement, Queensland state last week revealed that 375,000 hectares of bush were cleared in 2005-06 — a figure WWF said would have resulted in the deaths of two million mammals.

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