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**opelayday** · 05-01-2012, 05:24 AM

Sorry If I have offended anyone with my clumsy statement.

The intention of my question was to ask all the learned people of this forum an informative answer as to the Koalas significance in the ecosystem, it was not meant to be derogatory towards the Koala, further more I respect every creatures existence .

My sincere apologies for upsetting anyone.

I'm not offended. I'm just generally cranky all the time.

But it's a reasonable thing to ask, why pick on Koalas?

We don't know much about the world around in the scheme of things. We don't know what impact of taking Koalas out of it will be. There might be no impact. There might be an increase in Brushies to eat the now available food. There might be a decrease in some species of eucs ... we don't know. The areas where Koalas have gone are largely under concrete now so there isn't a place where we can see *just* the impact of the absence of Koalas.

Once we work out what we have lost, every chance it will be too late.

Even for species that we _know_ are important like flying-foxes (environmental services are long distance pollination and seed dispersal), we aren't that fussed on looking after.

05-01-2012, 05:24 AM	#10
opelayday Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 537 Senior Member	Sorry If I have offended anyone with my clumsy statement. The intention of my question was to ask all the learned people of this forum an informative answer as to the Koalas significance in the ecosystem, it was not meant to be derogatory towards the Koala, further more I respect every creatures existence . My sincere apologies for upsetting anyone. I'm not offended. I'm just generally cranky all the time. But it's a reasonable thing to ask, why pick on Koalas? We don't know much about the world around in the scheme of things. We don't know what impact of taking Koalas out of it will be. There might be no impact. There might be an increase in Brushies to eat the now available food. There might be a decrease in some species of eucs ... we don't know. The areas where Koalas have gone are largely under concrete now so there isn't a place where we can see just the impact of the absence of Koalas. Once we work out what we have lost, every chance it will be too late. Even for species that we _know_ are important like flying-foxes (environmental services are long distance pollination and seed dispersal), we aren't that fussed on looking after.
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