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Port Macquarie : Increase In Car Related Koala Injuries

 Koala Injury and Attack:

Apart from disease, koalas being hit by motor vehicles are one of the main reasons for admission into care.

Adult Koalas occupy a large home range in which they stay for their entire lives.

The loss of parts of their habitat due to construction of roads, highways, shopping centres, housing estates and other human infrastructure has a major implications on wild koala populations.

Roads built within the koalas home range become obstacles over which Koalas must cross to find food, shelter and mates.

This creates a great risk for the Koala, increasing the risk of being hit by a moving vehicle, as he Koala's are often hard to spot.

Depending on the speed of travel and which part of the vehicle actually impacts the koala can make a great deal of difference to the level of trauma the koala suffers.

Koala patients that arrive at a care facility alive can exhibit everything from fractured jaws, skulls, brain injury, fractured limbs, fractured spines, internal bleeding, to the degloving of skin from being dragged along the road's surface.

Koalas suffering serious traumatic injuries usually require surgery to repair fractures and they require long term intensive care.

Even with the best of care, many of them still die.

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