Without urgent government intervention, koalas in Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, are on track to become extinct before 2050, a state government inquiry found Tuesday.The warning came after the 2019-2020 bushfires which, according to the inquiry's report, resulted in the deaths of an estimated 5,000 koalas and had a severe impact on roughly one-quarter of the total koala habitat in the state.Previous official estimates of a population of 36,000 koalas were "outdated and unreliable" as they did not take into account the devastating impact of the latest unprecedented summer …READ FULL ARTICLE
