By JENNA MITCHELL
Staff Writer
Koalas are likely dying by the hundreds of Australian wildfires tearing across their habitat. The wildfires in Southern Australia have wiped out much of the koala population. As many as 350 koalas have perished. Port Macquarie Koala Hospital said, “In what is a national tragedy, bush fires in and around Port Macquarie in November devastated a genetically diverse Koala population.” There are fears that the koala population could possibly go extinct.