The Wider Image: From disease to bushfires, Australia's iconic koalas face bleak future
Morgan Philpott, a carer who volunteers with the animal rescue agency, Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service, also knows as WIRES, collects leaves to be fed to a koala in rehabilitation, in Kurrajong, Australia, July 17, 2020. "They really run the risk of becoming extinct inside our lifetime," Philpott said of the New South Wales koala population. "They need the trees to eat, and if we keep cutting them down they're going to die." REUTERS/Loren Elliott SEARCH "KOALAS ELLIOTT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES