Soaked and starving, this koala could be the loneliest copy of this already elusivespecies. The specimen was photographed at the top of a light pole height of 10 min the middle of nowhere in Gunnedah (New South Wales, Australia), completelyisolated from his family and his natural habitat, since the eucalyptus nearest wasover 6 km in length.
Not the first time that koalas were photographed uploaded to lampposts likemission ascetic hermits, and although there are several circumstantial reasons that cause these elements to perch, the Australian wildlife experts agree that the postsactually act as "bases" intermediate and safe travel in the process of koalas, andto help them move from one feeding area to another without perishing in the attempt.
Koalas are solitary animals who travel on their own circles, combing differentareas all the time from a central point. You can walk at night and then return to the post during the day as its safe place until they find the quickest way or another post to go through areas where no tree protection.
Australian environmental groups have urged the government of that country that catalogs this animal as endangered and a census of the remaining koalas (one of the icons of the country of the antipodes) after several scientific studies havedetected the population of this species has dwindled to a dramatic level.
The numbers of koalas were as low as 200,000 nationwide in 2010 compared to 430,000 that was in 1990. The clearing of forests to labor camps or kits for humans is contributing to their decline, because with the loss of trees which is encouraged is that the koala spends more time on the ground, where they areeasy prey for foxes, cars and other predators.
Not to mention the danger to the integrity of a koala that is being so close topower lines, as seen in this other example:
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