The research spent by the Australian Fund of protection of koalas, has shown that for last six years population of these animals could be cut by half as a result of climatic changes, illnesses and activity of the person. Now on Green continent lives from 43 to 80 thousand individuals whereas in their 2003 was 100 thousand.

It is a lot of marsupials of bears was lost as a result of epidemic of a clamidiosis and обезлесения, and climatic changes (rise in temperature and a drought) have led to reduction of nutritiousness of a favourite dish animal — эвкалиптовых leaves.

Defenders of environment unsuccessfully demanded to bring koalas in the Red book in 2006. The new data, according to fund, should become the weighty proof of threat of extinction at last.

The state committee which is engaged in protection of kinds which are on the verge of disappearance, will consider this question in the middle of 2010. Its representative Bob Biton already has now declared that officials will lay aside an emotional component. «There are many charismatic animals, but we will consider koalas with the same degree of diligence as though conversation went about venomous snakes», — the bureaucrat has noted.