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Sept. 26, 2006 — Australia's cuddly national icon, the koala, faces extinction in parts of Australia within a decade as development destroys the marsupial's habitat, a conservation group warned.
Only around 100,000 koalas were left in the wild and numbers were declining rapidly, the Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) said ahead of a renewed push to protect the species on a national level.