Animals / Mammal

Koala

Phascolarctos cinereus · Phascolarctidae

The koala, sometimes inaccurately called the koala bear, is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. Its closest living relatives are the wombats.

Where the Koala lives

Recorded in Ashmore and Cartier Is. (Oceania).

Most records fall in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

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Conservation status

Vulnerable (VU). At risk: it could become endangered. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 359,068 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.