Vulnerable because they move so slowly, around 8,000 koalas have died in the fires in New South Wales.
Australia's iconic animal the koala is becoming a symbol of the devastation wrought by the wildfires spreading across the country.
Their slow moving nature and their diet of oil-filled eucalyptus tree leaves, have rendered them particularly vulnerable to the blazes as Australia's Nature Conservation Council ecologist Mark Graham pointed out during a parliamentary hearing. He highlighted to the New South Wales lawmakers that the creatures"really have no capacity to move fast enough to get away."
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