Humans should not be concerned about juggling other species, but about reducing their own numbers.

Doing so, human energy consumption will drop as well and no longer be a source of contention.

Not doing so, something or the other that humans do would inevitably harm the environment.

Maybe we should move to label the species an official terrorist organisation.
Those terrorist koalas, how dare they prevent urban sprawl for all our lovely new immigrants.
Hold them without charge, with no access to legal counsel or due process.
Better still, they should be fined, imprisoned and shot, like vermin.
Eradicate them, by all means necessary.
Just bulldoze their homes already, after all the traditional inhabitants don't matter.
Poison their water, destroy their food sources and starve them out.

"That number isn't even in the peer-reviewed study yet, mhaze."

Oh really? Perhaps that's why I said they "will publish a peer-reviewed study". Future tense. Still its good to see that you're taking your talking points from the koala industry who are also saying the facts don't exist until they're published.

And of coarse, you'll also go with all their other claims to keep the funds rolling in. All of a sudden, them going extinct isn't the main story. Its all about nuance and other things that the data doesn't support. And keep donating....

"the scientists involved have been very clear that the increase is mostly due to improved detection methods."

Oh well perhaps I should have said that. Oh wait... I did. Still if you cant argue with my views, make up other views and tell me I'm wrong to hold views I don't hold. Standard JD.

The fact is the critter was never in danger. It was a scam based on minimal data, and they tried to keep the data vague.

"Koalas are still listed as endangered in several states."

This was an Australia-wide survey. Tell me more about reading the report.

Being in small numbers in some places, isn't the same as being endangered. I hear that the Emperor Penguin is endangered in Jamaica. Oh the humanity

When Europeans first arrived in Sydney there were no koalas in the region. Indeed the first recorded sighting occurred some 10 years after settlement in a region around Jarvis Bay. The critters were scarce and had a limited range limited to the east coast and southern Victoria. (In antiquity they existed in the west and South Australia but were hunted to extinction by the natives - although its probably illegal to say that these days since we are required to believe the natives lived in serene harmony with nature).
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Famously they are very finicky about their food sources. Luckily for the koala, the trees they like to eat were also favoured by Europeans who proceeded to expand the range of the various eucalypts that koalas feed on and therefore the range of the critters.

So come the late 20th century, when koalas are prevalent up and down the east coast, and even further afield, and the assumption among the activists became that it was always thus, and, since they weren't quite as prevalent in some places as others, they must be dying out due to those dastardly Europeans.

And now? Now we know that far from dying out they are thriving. Oh the humanity.

Oh the humanity.
maze,
If only we could refer to at least half the population as such !

The 'humanising' of animals indicates a warped society. The most stupid example currently is the moronic siding with sharks against fellow humans who have been killed by the horrible things.