Koalas endangered status
The Plight of the Koala
The species Phascolarctos cinereus, more commonly known as the koala, is a very
unique and unusual animal. Although it is commonly thought of as a bear, the koala is actually a
marsupial, one of the three groups of mammals, and is more closely related to the bandicoot and
the American opossum than any species of bear (Smith and Harman, 1997). The koala is almost
exclusively known to most people as the
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