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Koala extinction report shows bushfires may have wiped out marsupials in Shoalhaven

An area on the NSW south coast could be the latest part of the Sydney Basin to have lost its koala population, a new study has found.

The Sydney Basin Koala Network estimates koala numbers in the area covering a diverse landscape of 3.6 million hectares in the Sydney Basin region have declined by 22 per cent over the past 20 years.

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