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Article: Fed: Koala not a threatened species, says top science body
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- July 14, 2006
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AAP General News (Australia)
07-14-2006
Fed: Koala not a threatened species, says top science body
CANBERRA, July 14 AAP - Australia's great icon the koala is not in danger of extinction
and is not a threatened species, a scientific committee has concluded.
Advice from the federal government's Threatened Species Scientific Committee (TSSC)
to Environment Minister Ian Campbell says koalas number in the hundreds of thousands and
are not threatened on a national scale.
Senator Campbell said he had accepted the committee's advice that the koala did not
need to be listed as threatened under federal environment laws.
"This is reassuring news for Australia's koala population and good news ...