Australia’s NSW fires so destructive thousands of koala bodies may never be found, ecologist says
Inquiry hears most koalas cannot move fast enough to get away from fires leaping from treetop to treetop
Fires burning around New South Wales have razed koala habitats so extensively “we will probably never find the bodies”, an ecologist has told a parliamentary inquiry.
On Monday the NSW upper house inquiry held an urgent hearing into the state’s koala population and habitat after this season’s “unprecedented” bushfires destroyed millions of hectares of forest.