While Australia’s own leaders have no difficulty ignoring the koala’s plight, according to Tabart, American leaders have helped them in the past. In 1929 President Hoover ensured the survival of the koala by not allowing the importation of furs to the US from Australia. It is estimated that nearly 10 million koalas were shot at that time, and is fair to say that without Mr Hoover’s actions, the koala may have gone to extinction. ‘Now there are less than 100,000,’ says Tabart. Obama’s predecessors, Bill Clinton and Al Gore, also helped by listing the koala as vulnerable under the US Endangered Species Act in 2000.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:04:15 +0000
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