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The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) classified Koalas as Lower Risk/Near Threatened in 1996, then Least Concern in 2008. In 2014, Koalas were added to the Vulnerable list, with declining populations. They have not yet been classified as Critically Endangered.

In June 2016, an article noted that the Queensland government admitted that conservation efforts were failing and plan to turn to scientists to salvage remaining healthy populations.

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As a species, the koala is protected by law, and there is some Government legislation to protect koala habitats in some areas. Restrictions and curfews on pet dogs and cats also helps, but these are not always due to government legislation, but are generated by concerned citizens' groups.

The 2009-2014 National Koala Conservation and Management Strategy has recently been enacted. As a result, a national plan for implementation has been established to coordinate actions that were identified in the Strategy.

The koala has been a protected species since earlier in the twentieth century, and this action has brought it back from the brink of extinction. Koalas enjoy a quite healthy population in many parts of Australia, although currently they are listed as "vulnerable" in southeast Queensland. Koalas are a protected native species and many things are being done or trialled to prevent their becoming vulnerable in other areas.

It is up to the individual state governments in Australia to determine how koalas are best helped. Trials have been done to build special passages (as mentioned above) for koalas to travel under roadways to reach feeding grounds. For many years, the Redland Shire (now city) of southeast Queensland maintained speed limits on roads for certain seasons of the year and times of the day, to minimise the risk of koalas been hit by cars. The trials were unsuccessful, and subsequently scrapped. Other trials have seen the management of housing estates, where the keeping of domestic pets such as dogs is tightly controlled, to minimise danger to koalas. In some areas, eco-passages have been built for koalas and other native wildlife to safely cross over or under busy roadways.

Some housing developers try to "buy" government approval for large housing estates by including plans for koala hospitals to be built within their areas of planned development. Sometimes local governments will not compromise the safety of koalas with such a ridiculous scheme, and refuse approval for such housing applications. Research on koala needs is constantly being carried out, and other areas have koala and native wildlife hospitals anyway, seeing a need for such a facility with the increasing numbers of koalas being injured by cars, people or dogs.

Initially there were no koalas in Western Australia, and South Australia's population had been wiped out by the 1920s. This has now been reversed. Kangaroo Island off the coast of SA and isolated islands off Victoria's coast have actually seen an overpopulation problem due to these protected colonies. New colonies have been established in Western Australia, and the koalas are breeding quite successfully.

Despite urging by conservation groups since around 1992, Australia's federal government has refused to list the koala as vulnerable.

The Australian Koala Foundation works actively to help preserve this iconic Australian marsupial.

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Koalas are NOT bears, they are protected and healthy and are a tourist delight.

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