This is dumb (and bad)

 

After the kangaroo, the animal that most people associate with Australia is the wombat.

NO! It's the platypus.

NO! It's the koala.

Yes! At least I would think so.  There must be a poll somewhere. Even if it's not, the koala is one of Australia's most recognized animals, and it's very cute too.

Oh yeah -- it's endangered.  Because its main source of nutrition is the leaves of eucalyptus trees. They live in forests, of course.

"Thousands of koalas died in devastating bushfires five years ago, and many populations were already in decline after a steady drumbeat of logging, housing developments, dog attacks, car strikes and other threats. In 2022, the federal government declared koalas endangered."

So to help them out, they agreed to create a sanctuary for the koalas.

" “We are committed to creating the Great Koala National Park,” New South Wales Environment Minister Penny Sharpe said in an interview. “It’s a really important part of our plan to save koalas in the wild. I just ask people to be patient for a little bit longer. We’re going to do it right and we’re going to do it well.”

Great idea, right? Yes, but ...

"Although logging has been suspended in roughly 32 square miles identified as “koala hubs” — the most critical koala habitat — that means 95 percent of the state forests under consideration are still open to logging."

That is just dumb. Save the koalas -- and save the forests, too, because that's where they live.