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Take Action: Save Koalas from Possible Extinction!
Koalas in Australia suffer from a severe chlamydia epidemic. Take action!
04/25/13: According to a new article from the BBC, infection rates of koalas in some regions of Australia have reached as high as 90%. But not all the news is bad - chlamydia is treatable with antibiotics while volunteers help rehabilitate the sick. With a vaccine nearing development, now is the time to act and bring the koala back from the brink of extinction.
Goal: 50,000
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Progress: 32,465
Sponsored by: The Animal Rescue Site
Quite possibly one of the cutest animals in existence, the Australian koala is facing serious health dangers. An epidemic of chlamydia has begun to ravage Australia's koala population. In koalas, chlamydia is a nasty bacterial disease with symptoms including blindness, respiratory infections, and even infertility.
Combined with other threats from habitat loss and dog attacks, koalas now face the possibility of extinction. Though chlamydia doesn't directly kill the animals, rendering them infertile means koalas could become extinct in as little as a few decades.
About 40% of Australian female koalas are now infertile. We must intervene if we are to reverse the pattern that could lead these cuddly creatures to extinction.
Sign the petition asking Australias Federal Environment Minister to elevate koalas to endangered status and ensure they receive the resources necessary to avert this catastrophe.
Dear Hon. Burke, PM:
I am writing to express my concern over the current koala situation in Australia. I've learned that chlamydia is taking a huge toll on the koala population and rendering them infertile. Though chlamydia causes a range of health problems for these adorable animals, infertility is the most ominous as it threatens to extinguish the entire koala population.
Though there are treatment options, once chlamydia enters a koala's urinary tract, the animal is most often rendered infertile. With a vaccine in development, now is the time to grant the animal greater federal protection under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), providing the species with a chance of recovery.
This national emblem deserves national protection, rather than patchwork solutions offered at state and local levels that provide inadequate coverage.
Thank you for your time.
Petition Signatures
May 15, 2013
Richard Fisher
Let's do what can be done! Thank you.
May 15, 2013
Dee Reddick
One of my favorite memories of my time in Australia is the Koala. Please don't let this precious animal become ravaged & perhaps extinct. Thank you
May 15, 2013
reina peterson
May 15, 2013
Dianne Potter
May 15, 2013
Cricket Blanton
May 15, 2013
Angel Wolf
May 15, 2013
charles jacobs
Please save the Koalas from Extinction!
May 15, 2013
Paola Ascoli
May 15, 2013
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May 15, 2013
Claudine van den Heuvel
May 15, 2013
Norma Cooney
Don't let these beautiful animals become extinct. They are known world wide and everybody loves them.
May 15, 2013
Fiorella Cosentino
May 15, 2013
Richard Cassley
May 15, 2013
Lauryn Galindo
You are entrusted with the care of the precious koala; the citizens of the world are all counting on you to protect them! Thank you!
May 15, 2013
Jenny Stopora
May 15, 2013
Cristina LoCelso
May 15, 2013
Rosa Cilliers
May 15, 2013
Gregory Wulff
May 15, 2013
Kristy Mason
This is an embarassement to our country. Stop worrying about money and try doing your job and caring for our environment so we actually have one for future generations!!
May 15, 2013
Robert McVeigh
May 15, 2013
Aude Mongiatti
May 15, 2013
Melanie Smith
May 15, 2013
Lisa Francia
May 15, 2013
Mariann Rannenberg
May 14, 2013
Chris Carlon
May 14, 2013
kathleen rodriguez
May 14, 2013
Ilse Claase
May 14, 2013
DOROTHY MEADE
Please help to lessen the spreading of Chlamydia in these gorgeous Koala Bears. They've always been the symbol of Australia for me, and I'd like to see them in existence for my future grandchildren!
May 14, 2013
Salman lali
Take action now
May 14, 2013
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May 14, 2013
susan elam
May 14, 2013
Edwin Torres
May 14, 2013
Norma Vara
May 14, 2013
P.C. Rohan
May 14, 2013
sue chin
May 14, 2013
Marcelo Brito
May 14, 2013
Shelley Mitchell
May 14, 2013
Jody Sweet
May 14, 2013
Lori Erlendsson
Please do protect the koalas and their habitat.
May 14, 2013
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May 14, 2013
mae basye
May 14, 2013
Igor Kryan
May 14, 2013
jenne sindoni
May 14, 2013
Khrystyn Allen
May 14, 2013
Marnie Hagwood
Dedicated to my dad...a lover of koala's
May 14, 2013
Janel Caton
May 14, 2013
soheila safari
May 14, 2013
Linda Romero
May 14, 2013
diane peterson
May 14, 2013
Christine Caldwell
