Pockets of incest compounding bushfire risk to Gold Coast koalas

Key points:Development has pushed koalas into separate pockets of bushland, encouraging inbreedingBut a vast, expanding urban footprint has pushed a diminished koala population into increasingly smaller pockets of natural habitat while creating a new threat — incest.

"We don't have the big, large tracts of bushland areas anymore, and they're all chopped up by freeways, industrial areas and, basically, people," Dreamworld Wildlife Foundation General Manager Al Mucci said. "So brother and sister breeding together or mum breeding with son, means that the ability of the offspring of these animals to be as strong as they can be, gets diminished.It comes a year after a Right to Information request revealedThe Living Koala Genome Bank — a collaboration between University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, the State Government, and Dreamworld — has been attempting to reduce the risk of inbreeding among koalas in south-east Queensland.

That headline was a rollercoaster of things

Jesus effing h christ are you so desperate for a headline, journalistic morals and values at the are sub zero

Ok, hands up the government muppets that are allowing everything to go downhill Bueller? Bueller?

They are just quiet Australians ABC.... thoughts and prays for them all given. auspol koalas

Ok, there’s a headline I wasn’t expecting

It’s incense and koala put it in their pouches not pockets

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